Most liberal state on social issues?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Massachusetts is a state where most people generally jump through all the right socially liberal hoops in answers to surveys and to an extent in social interactions, but where we aren't entirely on board with things like assisted suicide and for a state as Atlas red as we are have relatively-less-lax abortion laws. The Catholic Church's moral authority here has taken some (in the case of the Archdiocese of Boston hierarchy in particular richly deserved) death blows, but has yet to quite finish bleeding out. We're unique in not really having any issue we're "socially conservative on"--California has the death penalty, Vermont has guns but as Figueira points out not really--but there are limits to how socially liberal we'll go on some issues. I'd say Massachusetts is the most socially liberal in an image-conscious bobo way and Vermont is the most socially liberal in a true believer way. (I honestly prefer the ethos of Vermont, even though I'm not crazy about some of the policy outcomes.)