New York's same-sex marriage ban struck down

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

"The court recognized that unless gay people can marry, they are not being treated equally under the law," said Susan Sommer, a Lambda Legal Defense Fund lawyer who presented the case for five couples who brought the lawsuit. "Same-sex couples need the protections and security marriage provides, and this ruling says they're entitled to get them the same way straight couples do."

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I expect this to be happening more often, especially since the US Supreme Court ruled in it's 2003 sodomy decision that homosexuals are a distinct category of citizens, worthy of the Constitutional right to equal protection under the law. Sooner or later, legally married homosexual couples are going to sue for the right to have their marriages recognized by other states. That's when the fun starts: one of the more important principles of the Constitution is that contracts made in one state are legally binding in all other states; of course, marriages are contracts, and gay marriages are very illegal in most states right now. Sparks will fly, the Supreme Court will be put into a very awkward position, and biggoted moralists and fundamentalists everywhere will gnash their teeth.

I can't wait.

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