Maine Becomes the 5th State to Legalize Gay Marriage
10% of the U.S. Conquered, 90% to go
Color-coded map of the same-sex marriage laws in the United States.
If you didn’t hear the news today, Maine became the fifth U.S. state (sixth if you count the brief time that it was legal in California before Proposition 8 passed) to legalize same-sex marriage, and the third this year alone.
I really enjoy looking at the map above. Too much red and not enough purple! But to put it in perspective, let’s consider this map:
[...] in May of this year I was all aglow because the state legislature and governor of Maine opened marriage to same-sex couples. Maine would have been the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage in the United States. But, [...]