This makes...what?....the 3rd or 4th time in the last 2 or 3 months? It's a snowball and it's a done deal. He stayed his decision pending appeal, (as happened in Virginia, as well). I have little doubt that the higher courts will uphold these cases, given previous decisions and the logical Constitutional citations the judges have used in their decisions. Here's hoping the reps in Indiana's legislature get the message and stop wasting time and money trying to appease the religious right. The gun community is winning their war through the 14th Amendment and so, too are gay Americans.
Texas' ban on gay marriage ruled unconstitutional - San Antonio Express-News
You can read the decision here.
Texas' ban on gay marriage ruled unconstitutional - San Antonio Express-News
In his ruling, Judge Garcia, who was nominated to the federal bench in 1993 by then-President Bill Clinton, writes:"Today's Court decision is not made in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature, but in compliance with the United States Constitution and Supreme Court precedent. Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution...With today's federal court ruling, the marriage equality movement is now 6-0 in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Windsor decision last June.
"Applying the United States Constitution and the legal principles binding on this Court by Supreme Court precedent, the Court finds that Article I, Section 32 of the Texas Constitution and corresponding provisions of the Texas Family Code are unconstitutional. These Texas laws deny Plaintifs access to the institution of marriage and its numerous rights, privileges, and responsibilities for the sole reason that Plaintifs wish to be married to a person of the same sex. The Court finds this denial violates Plaintifs' equal protection and due process rights under the Fourtenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."
You can read the decision here.