Gay marriage is one of the most polarising issues in the United States. Actually there is notonly a division between the democrats and the republicans, also between the consevative and the more modern/ democratic states. On tuesday, while the north-american people massively voted for the democrats for the Congress, allowing them to win the House of Representatives and the Senate, several referendums were held in 8 states to ban gay marriage! (yes, you read well, those votes were not meant to give more civil rights, but instead to take them!). The map above outlines the state of the law across the USA. Intense debates have surrounded the issue in the different states. On 7 November, Arizona voters rejected an amendment to the state constitution that would have banned domestic partnership laws as well as gay marriage. It became the first state to reject such an amendment. But Arizona already had an ordinary law banning gay marriage, which remains in force. On the same day that the Congress changed hands, seven other states approved constitutional amendments banning gay marriage - Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina (by 78%!), South Dakota, Tennessee (81%!) Virginia and Wisconsin.
Yes, while some countries move forward towards democracy and improved human rights, like Mexico, some USA states move backwards... They call it "development", I call it social lagging behind, mental "underdevelopment".
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