Voters in three states endorse gay marriage
Voters made history on Election Day three times over by endorsing moves to allow gay marriage in Maine, Maryland and Washington State.
At the same time, Minnesota voters rejected a ballot measure that would have enshrined an antigay marriage law in their constitution, and neighboring Wisconsin elected Democrat Tammy Baldwin as the country’s first openly gay U.S. senator.
Gay rights supporters are marking 2012 as a turning point in their quest for marriage equality. Opponents, however, deny that a cultural shift in attitudes is under way.
