A race to the bottom: Which state will be the last to legalize same sex marriage?
/Over the weekend, a judge overturned Alaska’s ban on same sex marriage.
On Tuesday, Alaska and North Carolina began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples for the first time.
Thirty states and Washington, D.C. now allow some form of marriage for same-sex couples.
Can you believe it? This seemed impossible just a few years ago, and now a majority of Americans live in states that permit same sex marriage.
The states that are still resisting same sex marriage must understand by now that resisting is only delaying the inevitable.
Right?
As the number of states in which same sex marriage is still illegal continues to shrink, we have to ask ourselves:
Which state will be last to legalize same sex marriage? And does that state want to carry the stigma of being the last to recognize this right?
Depending on how you define integration, Alabama, Arkansas, or Mississippi were the last states to integrate their school systems. Alabama has the unfortunate honor of often being thought of as the last to integrate, with Governor George Wallace refusing to do so until the military intervened and forced his hand.
Isn’t that amazing? The military had to forcibly integrate schools in Alabama and other parts of the South.
I can’t imagine that the people of Alabama are proud of this moment in their history.
Alabama is one of 20 states that in which same sex marriage is illegal. It’s currently engaged in a race to the bottom.
Which state will earn the unfortunate distinction of being the last to allow this basic human right? If these politicians in these final 20 states were smart, they would try like hell to avoid being the last. It’s an honor that no state should want.
Unfortunately, intelligence and wisdom tend to be in short supply when it comes to the bigots and hypocrites who struggle to keep these bans in place, so it’s likely to be a shortsighted, clawing, ugly battle to determine which state is run by the largest percentage of them.