Just this week, both New Mexico and Utah legalized same-sex marriage (via the courts). I'm glad that the courts are starting to get in on the action. It's really just a matter of time. Our period today is like the late 1950s for blacks. From 1954 to 1968, blacks basically became equal citizens in all states. For example, there was Brown VS the Board of Education - school desegregation (1954), the Civil Rights Act (1964), the Voting Rights Act (1965), and the Fair Housing Act (1968). In a period of 15 years, things dramatically changed. We're in that period for same-sex marriage now. There are a few differences, though. For one, a lot of people forget that blacks and other minorities did have full rights for quite a while (in some cases perhaps even since America's founding) in many northern states. Here, same-sex marriage was not legal in any state until quite recently. It was only ten years ago, in 2003, when Massachusetts became the first state to legaliz