In how many states will gay marriage be legal in 2020?

[bluestateguy]

Poll question: In how many states will gay marriage be legal in 2020?

[Unvanguard]

1. Probably nearly all of those in which it is not now constitutionally banned.

And two or three of those in which it is--definitely California, for instance.

[barbtries]

2. i said all of them

and i was going to sign love, pollyanna, but then...why not? just why the hell not?!

it should not even be a matter for legislation. but then neither should slavery, women's rights, on and on.

[WeDidIt]

3. All of them

It may be more than fifty states by 2020, you never know, but all of them will have legal gay marriage by then,

Critical mass will come in about five years when multiple states have legal marriage and the SCOTUS will have no choice but to allow invocation of the full faith and credit clause. Once a gay marriage performed in Iowa must be recognized by Kansas, gay marriage is legal in Kansas. From there, it's a very small leap to gay marriages being performed in Kansas due to the Loving precedent.

[Tesha]

4. All of them.

The US Supreme Court will decide that the "full faith
and credit" clause actually does apply to marriage
contracts just as surely as it applies to any other
contracts and will rule that marriages from those
states where it is overtly legal are valid everywhere
in the United States, even in those states that still
wish they could re-legalize slavery.

And the citizens of those states will just have to,
so to speak, suck on it, just like they mostly do
WRT slavery.

Tesha

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Other.

-2. We're going to lose two states we currently have it in.

[FreeState]

6. Which ones? n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

7. New Hampshire and Iowa.

Just my prediction.

[Chipper Chat]

8. My prediction:

LEGAL: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Maryland, Oregon, California, North Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, washington DC, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, North Carolina (maybe).

NOT LEGAL: Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma (will be the LAST state to legalize it), Arkansas, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Alaska, Missouri, Florida, South Dakota, Nebraska,

[FreeState]

9. Good list

I think almost all the ones you have put in the not legal category will never technically grant marriage equality - however they will all be forced via federal law to do so at the same point in time (Im guessing either in 3 years or if not then 15 years).