a revolution of private persuasion

Na antecipação da tomada de posse do segundo mandato de Barack Obama, o Washington Post isolou dez mudanças que decorreram no primeiro mandato, nos Estados Unidos e no Mundo. Em quarto lugar, colocou o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, neste caso, a mudança doméstica. Diz assim:

“It was the biggest shift in social attitudes since the civil rights movement, but this change happened without lunch counter sit-ins or shameful images of men in uniforms wielding fire hoses against people asserting their humanity. By the time the president announced what most people had long assumed, that he supported the right of men to marry men and women to marry women, there was no shock. This social revolution occurred not in the public square, but at home, in kitchens and living rooms where family and friends learned that their loved ones loved people of their own sex. It was a revolution of private persuasion, helped along by popular culture, and by the new shape of the American family — single parents, childless couples, people in ever more complex stepfamilies. By the time laws and votes and presidential pronouncements started piling up, the change was pretty much done”.