Thursday, June 26, 2014



Equality comes to Indiana

Another day, another state's bigot-law is struck down by a federal court:

A federal judge struck down Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday in a ruling that immediately allowed gay couples to wed.

The court clerk in Marion County, home to Indianapolis, began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couple about an hour after U.S. District Judge Richard Young ruled that the state law violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal-protection clause.

“Same-sex couples, who would otherwise qualify to marry in Indiana, have the right to marry in Indiana,” he wrote. “These couples, when gender and sexual orientation are taken away, are in all respects like the family down the street. The Constitution demands that we treat them as such.”


Also today: Utah's appeal against a similar decision was turned down.

The turning tide has become a flood. And like the civil rights movement fifty years ago, it will sweep this bigotry away.