Comments on: 2013, An Extraordinary Year for Marriage Equality http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: teknohed http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-585626 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:29:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=60688#comment-585626 hold on. Utah has same sex marriage? Am I reading that right? Having grown up around casually rascist homophobic mormons of eastern nevada / western utah that is causing a lot of cognitive dissonance for me.

]]> By: Starting 2014 with a bang: News you missed this week | Politics Power Sex http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-585624 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:20:48 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=60688#comment-585624 […] Check out the progress we’ve made on same-sex marriage – in two awesome charts […]

]]> By: echomrg http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-585430 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:31:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=60688#comment-585430 also why is New Zealand counted with South Africa?

]]> By: Maire Smith http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-585208 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:33:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=60688#comment-585208 That second chart is lovely, but confusing. It seems to suggest New Zealand has had same-sex marriage for a long time. We only got it last year. Same-sex civil unions are older, yes, but don’t have all the legal rights conferred by marriage. Couples in civil unions are not able to adopt.

]]> By: [links] Link salad trudges back to the medical trenches | jlake.com http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-585150 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:34:26 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=60688#comment-585150 […] 2013, An Extraordinary Year for Marriage Equality — And the rising tide of bigotry begins to recede. Remember when the anti-gay bigots used to brag about how they had never lost a vote on the subject, as evidence of the rightness of their position? Suddenly winning popular votes is a lot less important to them. The much vaunted intellectual consistency of conservative America on display once more. […]

]]> By: Bill R http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/01/2013-an-extraordinary-year-for-marriage-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-585115 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:50:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=60688#comment-585115 What a great thing America is doing.

One of the aspects of life in this country I’ve always found appealing is our view regarding the rights of individuals. We trample on them enough to frustrate the most patient of us, but we have an unwavering belief in the general concept and sometimes is shines through in unexpected ways.

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