I love writing these posts!  Here’s another Federal court decision striking down a state’s law against gay marriage (or as we like to call it, “marriage”).  This time, it’s Michigan.

In the last year, we’ve had decisions in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.  Meanwhile, Hawaii, New Jersey and Rhode Island have removed the prohibition without a court decision.

This is a great map from Mother Jones that has yet to be updated to include this latest decision

Not one has gone the opposite way.  It will be quite difficult for the Supreme Court to rule that all of these cases were wrongly decided when they are unanimous.  This is especially true when all of these decisions rely upon and quote the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act to justify their rulings.

The best parts of these decisions have been when the judges point out that the arguments of those who want to deny this basic right are ridiculous.  Judge Friedman, in this most recent case, called the witnesses “unbelievable” and called their so-called scientific studies “deeply flawed.”  (It should be noted that Judge Friedman is a Republican who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, just in case someone wants to try to argue that this is a political decision instead of a legal one.)  “In attempting to define this case as a challenge to ‘the will of the people,’ ” he wrote, “state defendants lost sight of what this case is truly about: people.”