U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle is the fifth judge in six weeks to make the same finding
A Tallahassee federal judge ruled Thursday that Florida's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, the fifth judge in the past six weeks to do so
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all i know is that after the rulings last year, state after state after state started overturning their own anti-gay-marriage amendments, and if proposition 8 is functionally the same thing as florida's amendment 2...would they hear (what looks to me like) the same case twice if it did end up going back to the SCOTUS? because i have no misconceptions that they'll probably end up doing just that if they can.
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So, better than before, I guess.
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we'll get there. It's a big step that our AG has effectively told the Republican reps he DGAF about defending the ~constitutional amendment~ and the governor has said so as well
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In the meantime, I think it's crazy that marriages that are perfectly legal in one state can be treated as non-existent in another. I understand that each state makes its own laws as to who can GET married there, but I think it's just plain nuts that a couple can be legally married in one state, then move to another state, and all of a sudden *POOF* their marriage doesn't exist anymore. In what universe does that make ANY sense at all? #rhetoricalquestion
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