America’s Gay Paradox

The Atlantic
June 12, 2009
Andrew Gelman reproduces a fascinating state-by-state analysis of recent shifts in support for marriage equality. What emerges is the fact that states that were already more supportive of the freedom to marry have become more so much faster than those initially reluctant. My sense is that it is about the number of openly gay people in these states. Once you reach a tipping point in understanding that gay people are not evil perverts who all live under a gooseberry bush somewhere in San Francisco, the logic of full equality sweeps all before it. Honesty and dialogue make equality inevitable. [Link]