I love doing these posts, watching the dominoes fall.

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

Not one court case has gone the other way.  The breaking down of discrimination has been 100% effective. 

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.

“This is an unconstitutional attempt to narrow the definition of equality,” Judge Piazza wrote in the most recent case. “The exclusion of a minority for no rational reason is a dangerous precedent.”  

He compared the case to the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.  “It has been over 40 years since Mildred Loving was given the right to marry the person of her choice,” he wrote. “The hatred and fears have long since vanished and she and her husband lived full lives together; so it will be for the same-sex couples. It is time to let that beacon of freedom shine brighter on all our brothers and sisters. We will be stronger for it.”