From US District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen’s ruling [PDF] yesterday, finding that Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under federal law (just as both Utah’s and Oklahoma’s bans were recently found)…
The men and women, and the children too, whose voices join in noble harmony with Plaintiffs today, also ask for fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as it is in this Court’s power, they and all others shall have.
While undoubtedly Virginia’s law would have been found unconstitutional and overturned eventually anyway — just like similar laws in all fifty states will be very shortly — it arguably will have happened much faster there and (take note, conservatives) with much less cost to the taxpayers, thanks to the results of last November’s elections. Yes, as we’ve been detailing for more than ten years now, elections really do matter.
Oh, and happy Valentines Day, Virginia…and everyone else!
[Hat-tip Mariah Blake at Mother Jones…]
Excellent! Thank you for this, Brad!