8th October 2014, 12:22 PM
![[Image: marriage.png]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/marriage.png)
Turns out it's kinda the opposite situation. In one the law predated public acceptance, and in the other public acceptance is quickly predating the law. Actually, this seems like another argument we can use. So many politicians opposed to equality treat legalizing same sex marriage as "forcing the gay agenda on all of us". Well, the law previously "forced" racial marriage equality on a far more unaccepting populace. Was it wrong then? Should we settle for just waiting for public opinion to support minority rights, or should things work a bit more like the "good ol' days" where laws could be passed recognizing the legal necessity of equality even when the majority was vastly opposed to the minority?
By the way, how the hell did it take until 1995 for "interracial" marriage approval to get above the halfway mark? That confuses my sheltered little mind and goes against how I was raised, but hell's bells, it seems that using "that's how I was raised" as any sort of metric of popular opinion doesn't work so well with me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)