Celebrating Five Years of Same Sex Marriages in Iowa

This map is slightly behind the times, but I still love it. The federal district courts are starting to play havoc with states where the legislative agenda would never allow this to happen (Utah, did you see that coming?), but in any case, it has been an eventful five years since the first couples in Iowa who share not just love but also a gender could become not just happily but also legally married.

In many ways the title says it all--at this point marriage equality is becoming a part of the fabric of the state, and remarkably, the same thing is happening in almost domino like fashion around the country.  When talking about change within an organization it is said that when 15% of the workplace share something--a race, a gender, an idea for change, whatever it might be--that then they have the power to be heard.  Since 2009 marriage equality has been legalized in enough states that it has the power to be heard.  Unfortunately, the South is nowhere to be found in thiscascadeof change.  They remain first in poverty and last in civil rights.  The only hope is that companies in the future will seek out states where civil rights are clebrated rather than reviled.  I also hope that the reprisals against judges who uphold constitutional rights are not successful in the future.