Woke up this morning to the news that gay marriage is now legal in New York state. Good for New York. Social progress comes slowly. Sometimes it seems it’s never going to arrive. But if you wait long enough, work hard enough, hold on to your principles no matter what, it eventually does come around. The long trajectory of this country has forever been toward greater equality under the law for all its citizens, no matter who they are or what they stand for. New York just affirmed that fundamental idea in a major way.

Now, anyone care to wager over whether my home state of Utah will be the last in the union to the affirm that idea? No, I suppose not… the odds are too bad…