Our problem is... many states treat such issues as "states rights"....a major part of our extreme differences. That is why New York (barely) passing that law was so important.

Can you imagine some freedom being legal in London, but not in backwards old Hull? That's how it works here. I am lucky in that I live in a fairly liberal state- Maryland... but right across the river, 20 miles from me, they have a state, Virginia, with a seriously conservative state government right now.