For those keeping score at home, the number of anti-gay marriage lawsuits that have succeeded is up to a grand total of zero.

Oregon is the latest state to affirm equality in marriage.  That’s a 100% success rate.  Some of my conservative friends (you know who you are) still claim that these laws preventing gay marriage are constitutional.  Not sure how many more cases we need to convince you if 100% isn’t enough.   

In Oregon (like Pennsylvania) the Attorney General refused to defend a law that is clearly unconstitutional.

In his opinion, Judge McShane wrote, “Expanding the embrace of civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples will not burden any legitimate state interest … The state’s marriage laws unjustifiably treat same-gender couples differently than opposite-gender couples. The laws assess a couple’s fitness for civil marriage based on their sexual orientation: opposite-gender couples pass; same-gender couples do not. No legitimate state purpose justifies the preclusion of gay and lesbian couples from civil marriage.”

Watch:  The attack will come that Judge McShane, who is gay himself, is unable to make this decision because he is biased.  Conversely, it is just as easy to argue that he is more qualified than a straight person to make this decision, as he has suffered through the discrimination and knows first-hand its effects.