Marriage Equality Now Seattle

Some good news from Georgia and Oklahoma… From an AP article, via Feministe: In Georgia, a Superior Court Judge struck down the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage based mostly on a technicality (the ballot included multiple subjects instead of just one as is allowed). While this is good news, it won’t really do much to change the public perception (76% voted for the amendment), and will probably fan the flames of those who like accusing “activist judges” of daring to do one of their main jobs, mainly protecting the minority from tyrannical laws by the majority.

On other news another judge in Oklahoma struck down the state’s anti-gay-adoption law, and this time it wasn’t due to a technicality at all:

U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron ruled Friday the measure violated due process rights under the U.S. Constitution because it attempted to break up families without considering the parents’ fitness or the children’s best interests.

Again, as you can read in the article, the Republicans complain about pesky judges getting in the way of their unconstituional discriminatory laws. Both of these separate lawsuits, by the way, were initiated by Lambda Legal.