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Regardless of what happens to this Utah thing eventually, in our lifetime, there will be a national legal standing that supports equal rights. Even if certains groups still oppose it, it will be something available to all gay couples who desire that level of commitment.
There are currently 19 states that gay marriage is legal and 12 additional states whose bans have been overturned but appeals (that will ultimately be denied) are still being processed.
It started with Mass. in 2004 but you can see how quickly things have changed the last 5 years, highlighting 2013-2014.
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
