Friday, November 09, 2012

Three more friendly states

This past Tuesday, on Election Day, for the first time ever, voters approved same-sex marriage at the voting booth in not one, not two, but three states!!!

A big THANK YOU to Maine

Maine

Maryland

Maryland

and Washington

Washington

It was a glorious night for LGBT rights all over the map.  Aside from adding 3 more states to the total number allowing marriage equality and re-electing the most LGBT friendly president we’ve ever had, a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was defeated in Minnesota (again, for the first time), and the first openly lesbian Senator, Tammy Baldwin, was elected to the US Senate.

The tide seems to have clearly turned in our favor and our opponents have lost the last weapon they had against us, that whenever the question was put to the people, we lost, which meant that the people weren’t on our side (regardless of the rightfulness of putting a minority’s civil rights to a popular vote).  This time, the people didn’t just hand us a victory, they did so times three, forever shattering that lone, last argument against marriage equality.

A great night full of positive news and results that will hopefully reverberate for years to come.

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