Earlier in the season, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) declared this the "Summer for Marriage," and launched a cross-country bus tour to persuade the public that allowing same-sex couples to marry would be really bad. According to most reports, not all that many people were eager to jump on board, and .
But NOM did get one thing right: this has indeed been the summer for marriage.
The summer got started a little early with Portugal, on June 5, becoming the . A law was passed by the Assembly and declared constitutional by the country鈥檚 highest court.
On July 8, a that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it requires the federal government to discriminate between same-sex couples and different-sex couples, all of whom are validly married in Massachusetts.
On July 22, Argentina, also through the legislative process, .
On August 4, a federal judge declared California鈥檚 anti-gay marriage amendment, Prop. 8, unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution. On August 12, the , barring same-sex couples from marrying, for now. But in its order, the court noted that it believed that it would be unlikely that the proponents of the amendment would have to bring an appeal. The to the federal appeals court.
On August 5, the Mexican Supreme Court upheld the decision of Mexico City to grant same-sex couples the ability to marry. On August 11, the Court ruled that .
On August 10, the Costa Rica Supreme Court for same-sex couples. The court said that the rights of a minority should not be put up for a vote by the majority.
It鈥檚 also worth noting that public support for marriage for same-sex couples continues to grow. An (PDF) found that 52 percent of the public believes that lesbians and gay men should have a constitutional right to marry.
The next few months are likely to bring many twists and turns, especially in the , but it鈥檚 pretty clear that it鈥檚 just a matter of time before marriage for same-sex couples is legal in all 50 states and much of the rest of the word.
In the meanwhile, I suspect we鈥檙e in for more predicting the apocalypse. But at this point, it鈥檚 got to feel pretty lousy on that bus.
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