Marriage Equality in 2003.
Looking through past articles in the Boston Globe, I found this one from November of 2003, written the day after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriages in the Commonwealth. Reading through this is so strange. The unexpectedness of such a decision is clear and the fear of a constitututional amendment to ban the practice is palpable in the words. Five years later, marriage equality has over 80% support in the Massachusetts legislature. And Massachusetts is no longer the left-wing extremeist state as five other states have also joined Massachusetts in granting equal rights for all of their citizens. It’s remarkable how far we’ve come.
