New at Reason: Jesse Walker on Same-Sex Marriage

June 27, 2011

In the wake of New York's legalization of same-sex marriage, Managing Editor Jesse Walker reminds us that the earliest steps toward marriage equality were made far from the corridors of power. The recognition of gay unions emerged gradually, reaching wider and wider circles until finally even governments started climbing aboard. Contrary to the rhetoric you hear from some of the idea's opponents, gay marriage was not cooked up in some D.C. laboratory and imposed on the public by social engineers. It was built from the bottom up, and it was alive at a time when the typical social engineer still thought homosexuality was a disease.

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