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Republican's are going to have their heads explode, which should help their dementia:


Federal judge strikes down Texas gay marriage ban
by
Laura Clawson .


The equality just keeps spreading.

The marriage equality judgments just keep coming. Texas is the latest state to have its same-sex marriage ban declared unconstitutional by a federal district judge:

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia cited recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings as having trumped Texas’ moves to ban gay marriage.
“Today’s court decision is not made in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature, but in compliance with the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent,” he said in his order. “Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our U.S. Constitution.”

It's been less than two weeks since a Virginia district judge struck down that state's marriage ban, joining judges in Utah, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Kentucky who had ruled against at least some parts of those states' gay marriage bans.

Garcia issued a stay on his ruling while it is appealed, so Texas couples will have to wait.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/26/1280625/-Federal-judge-strikes-down-Texas-gay-marriage-ban