Maybe we could start camping outing public places under the guise of protest.
Honestly, the one thing I try to convey is, regardless of one's moral opinions of marriage, nobody should want government enforcing morality; because all's fine when it's your moral being enforced, but eventually the shoe will be on the other foot.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.AeschylusRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/qu...zeMUwcpY1Io.99
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- 1830 Married women are granted the right to own property in their own name, instead of being owned exclusively by the husband, in Mississippi.
- 1848 Married women are granted the right to own property in their own name in New York.
- 1856 The platform of the Republican Party refers to polygamy as one of the "twin relics of barbarism" (alongside slavery).[1] At the time, polygamy was a practice of some Mormons. (See Mormonism and polygamy.)
- 1862 The United States Congress enacts the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln, which made bigamy a felony in the territories punishable by $500 or five years in prison.
- 1873 In Bradwell v. Illinois the Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman from practicing law. [2]
- 1874 Congress passes the Poland Act, which transfers jurisdiction over Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act cases to federal prosecutors and courts in Utah, which were not controlled by Mormons.
- 1879 The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Reynolds v. United States.
- 1882 Congress passes the Edmunds Act, which prohibits not just bigamy, which remained a felony, but also bigamous cohabitation, which was prosecuted as a misdemeanor, and did not require proof an actual marriage ceremony had taken place. The law also allows polygamists to be held indefinitely without a trial.
- 1887 Congress passes the Edmunds-Tucker Act, which allows prosecutors to force polygamist wives to testify against their husbands, and abolished the right of women in Utah to vote.
- 1890 Mormons in Utah officially renounce polygamy through the 1890 Manifesto.
[edit] 19001999
- 1900 All states now grant married women the right to own property in their own name.
- 1904 Mormons in Utah officially again renounce polygamy with the Second Manifesto, excommunicating anyone who participates in future polygamy.
- 1907 All women acquire their husband's nationality upon any marriage occurring after that date.
- 1933 Married women granted right to citizenship independent of their husbands.
- 1948 California Supreme Court overturns interracial marriage ban (Perez v. Sharp).
- 1965 The Supreme Court overturns laws prohibiting married couples from using contraception.
- 1967 The Supreme Court overturns laws prohibiting interracial couples from marrying (Loving v. Virginia).[3]
- 1969 The first no-fault divorce law is adopted in California.[3]
- 1971 The Supreme Court upholds an Alabama law which automatically changes a woman's legal surname to that of her husband upon marriage.
- 1971 The Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling allowing prohibition of same-sex marriage (Baker v. Nelson).
- 1972 The Supreme Court overturns laws prohibiting unmarried couples from purchasing contraception.
- 1973 Maryland becomes the first state in the U.S. to define marriage as "between a man and a woman" in statute.
- 1975 Married women allowed to have credit in their own name.
- 1975 Three states outlaw same-sex marriage by statutes.
- 1976 The Supreme Court overturns laws prohibiting abortions for married women without the consent of the husband.
- 1993 All 50 states have revised laws to include marital rape.[3]
- 1994 40 of the 50 states amend their marriage statutes to outlaw same-sex marriage.
- 1996 President Bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act into law, which outlaws federal recognition of both same-sex marriage and polygamy, and removes any requirement that states recognize such marriages entered into in other jurisdictions.
- 1998 Hawaii amends its constitution to allow the legislature to ban same-sex marriage, in response to a court ruling which would otherwise have allowed such marriages. Alaska becomes the first state to bar same-sex marriage in its constitution.
- 1998 South Carolina is the penultimate state in the U.S. to remove the ban on interracial marriage in its state constitution.
[edit] 2000present
- 2000 Nebraska amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy.
- 2000 Alabama becomes the last state in the US to remove the ban on interracial marriage in its state constitution.
- 2002 Nevada amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy.
- 2004 Massachusetts grants and recognizes same-sex marriages, while 14 states rush to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy through their state constitutions in response.
- 2005 Texas amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy.
- 2006 26 states outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy through their state constitutions.
- 2006 - 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Nebraska's ban on gay marriage.[4]
- 2008 New York starts recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other places but does not grant such marriages. Connecticut begins granting same-sex marriages. California briefly grants same-sex marriage until the passage of Proposition 8 later in the year, but continues recognizing marriages entered into prior to the proposition's passage. 29 states outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy through their state constitutions.
- 2009 Iowa and Vermont grant and recognize same-sex marriages; the District of Columbia starts recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other places but does not grant such marriages. Maine rescinds planned legalization of same-sex marriage by popular vote.
- 2010 New Hampshire and the District of Columbia grant same-sex marriages. Maryland recognizes same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. In Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a district court overturns California's ban on same-sex marriage (however, the decision is stayed pending an appeal).
- 2011 New York begins granting same-sex marriages.
- 2012 A federal appeals court upholds the district court decision that struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage (the case is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court).[5]
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Marriage equality is a civil rights issue. It makes no sense to completely do away with civil marraige. All we need to do is make it equitable. Marriage privatization, (AKA "Getting the government out of the marriage business") isn't the solution. It’s taken a ton of hard work since the 1960s to convince people that gay people deserve rights. We are close to getting marriage equality. Marriage privatization might sound idyllic to libertarians but given that there are real, existing gay people who are being put at a disadvantage now by not having marriage equality.. This hey there’s a wonderful libertarian solution to this sounds good, except it isn’t actually a solution, it’s just rhetoric.
We will NEVER privatize marriage. Maybe in a libertarian society, gay people would be treated with exactly the same liberty as everybody else. But we don’t live in Libertopia, we live in this world, in this reality, with this government.
You want marriage privatization? Convince the existing married straight people. Make it a real, live political option, then we’ll talk. But until that point, don’t expect gay people to give up on the fight for marriage equality in order to support marriage privatization, which is pie in the sky.
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