Bends towards justice:
Jim Burroway charted our slow but steady progress:
In 1960, homosexuality was a criminal act in every state and territory in the union. By 2000, when Vermont enacted civil unions, more than a third of the U.S. population lived in states where gay people were still legally criminals. All that changed of course with the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision. Gay people were no longer criminals, but they weren’t recognized in any other way either. The past decade has been a very slow march toward correcting that.
The Dish 