The Upshot: Love Won

Check out this piece, by Anna Quindlen, about love, gay marriage, and social norms.

The Same People - Scream, shout, jump up and down. No matter. The gay-marriage issue is over and done with. The upshot: love won.

"...One of the most transformative social movements over our lifetime has been the battle for gay rights, and the key to its great success has been the grass-roots phenomenon of exploding stereotypes by simply saying, 'Yes, I am.' Each time the woman at the next desk or the guy down the street lets it be known that he or she is gay, it takes another brick out of the wall of division. Or, as Ellen DeGeneres told John McCain on her show recently, 'We are all the same people, all of us.' That's what the California Supreme Court said when it ruled that gay couples should have the right to marry as a matter of basic equality..." Read the entire story.

Originally published in Newsweek on June 9, 2008.