We have some haters up here. Not in town, really, but have you ever heard about Wasilla? Yeah.. I think Girdwood and Talkeetna, and Juneau would go for it. But we have too many conservatives and lots of 'Independents' who I find to be rightwingers that just hate the tea party or hate everybody.

Me neither.

I'm not sure, especially the way a circuit court ruling can cause same-sex marriages to be allowed in some unexpected states (like we saw this week).

I'm guessing within the next 10 years, same-sex marriage will be legal in every state.

What will be the last state? How about I'll go with their won't be a last state, because the last ones will all be forced to recognize same-sex marriage via court decision, so there will be a group of "last states." How's that for an answer?

Looking at the map of circuit courts, I'll go with this group of "last states:" North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas.

We screwed up voting against the ERA. We'll screw this up too. 😝

Bigotry does not fade away willingly.

in a circuit that wouldn't abide by the rulings of the SCOTUS or follow the example of the other circuits that have overturned bans on equal marriage. Once we get one circuit that doesn't agree with all the rest, then the case is 'ripe' for the SCOTUS to just step in and state the obvious.

Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote on this issue, and he'd probably rather see marriage equality evolve piecemeal for a year or two before officially ending marriage discrimination. You had a tiny minority of places that made interracial marriage illegal until Loving vs. Virginia, and you had a sizable minority of states that had legalized abortion when Roe vs. Wade came down. Even Justice Ginsburg has opined that the latter case's timing probably kept the issue alive for as many years as it has been.