mobanmarketA federal judge in Virginia late Thursday received applause from marriage equality advocates by ruling that the state’s ban on gay marriage—though approved by voters in 2006—is an affront to the rights of gay citizens and struck the law down on constitutional grounds.
“Our Constitution declares that ‘all men’ are created equal,” wrote Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen of US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. “Surely this means all of us.”
“Gay and lesbian individuals share the same capacity as heterosexual individuals to form, preserve and celebrate loving, intimate and lasting relationships,” the judge continued. “Such relationships are created through the exercise of sacred, personal choices — choices, like the choices made by every other citizen, that must be free from unwarranted government interference.”
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