05/20/2014
Way to go Pennsylvania! I really like the way this judge worded the reason for his decision.
BREAKING: A federal judge in Harrisburg, PA has struck down that state's ban on same-sex marriage, the second such ruling this week by a federal court and the 14th consecutive ruling in favor of marriage equality.
The judge wrote, "Some of our citizens are made deeply uncomfortable by the notion of same-sex marriage. However, that same-sex marriage causes discomfort in some does not make its prohibition constitutional. Nor can past tradition trump the bedrock constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection...
"Were that not so, ours would still be a racially segregated nation according to the now rightfully discarded doctrine of ‘separate but equal’...
In future generations the label same-sex marriage will be abandoned, to be replaced simply by marriage.”
Well said, indeed. CONGRATULATIONS, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the right side of history.