This afternoon, Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill legalizing same sex marriages in Maine:

New York Gov. David Paterson today announced a bill to legalize gay marriage.

Vermont has passed a law to allow same-sex marriages! The state legislature has voted 100-49 to overturn Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto. Vermont is following very closely in the footsteps of Iowa, who passed a similar law last week. Connecticut and Massachusetts were the first two states to do so. It is important to note, however, that the other states passed their laws because of judicial rulings while Vermont is the first state to proactively pass a marriage equality law.

Earlier today the Iowa Supreme Court ruled, unanimously, that the state’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.  Methinks the gay marriage opponents are marching against the forces of history.
I’m a little torn on this.  On the one hand, this is excellent news, and I’m always thrilled when people’s civil rights are recognized.  On the other hand, I’m now living in a world where same-sex marriage is legal in Iowa but not in California, and it’s freaking me the hell out.

Freedom to Marry Week- which started yesterday and ends Saturday- asks people to have 7 conversations in 7 days regarding marriage equality.

Every so often, like once every six months or so, GraphJam gets off a good one:

Andrew Sullivan, who’s taken the anti-Prop 8 bull by the horns, has an amazing series of posts over at the Daily Dish on the protests and demonstrations that sprang up nationwide today.
The fact is that the passage of Proposition 8 caught a not insignificant chunk of the LGBT rights community — myself and this blog included — completely napping. It’s not that there weren’t voices of warning, it’s that a lot of us were so focused on the top prize that we didn’t heed them. Hence the genuine surprise on …

When the election was announced in favor of Barack Obama Tuesday night, I sent a text message out that said: “We did it! America got one right!” And we did get that one- the choice of president- right. The Democrats picked up some Senate seats; Kay Hagan took her seat from Elizabeth Dole, showing that deceptive and malicious attack ads aren’t what people want right now. There was much to celebrate.
But there were some very major errors made Tuesday night in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas. Errors that suggest, as …

By a vote of 4-3, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that prohibiting same-sex marriages violates the state constitution and that civil union laws are not providing homosexual couples with the same rights as heterosexual couples. 
Three states down (assuming California’s stays put), forty seven to go.