Pennsylvania’s law banning same sex marriage and recognition of same sex marriages from other states was declared unconstitutional today.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

DEB WHITEWOOD, et al.,Plaintiffs,

v.

MICHAEL WOLF, in his official

capacity as Secretary, Pennsylvania

Department of Health, et al., Defendants.

1:13-cv-1861

Hon. John E. Jones III

….we hold that Pennsylvania’s Marriage Laws violate both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because these laws are unconstitutional, we shall enter an order permanently enjoining their enforcement. By virtue of this ruling, same-sex couples who seek to marry in Pennsylvania may do so, and already married same-sex couples will be recognized as such in the Commonwealth.

The issue we resolve today is a divisive one. Some of our citizens are made deeply uncomfortable by the notion of same-sex marriage. However, that same-sex marriage causes discomfort in some does not make its prohibition constitutional. Nor can past tradition trump the bedrock constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection….

….Similarly, in future generations the label same-sex marriage will be abandoned, to be replaced simply by marriage.

We are a better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history….

[emphasis in original]

Missouri’s ban is not long for this world.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000953 07/11/2012 MO REPUBLICAN PARTY John Templeton 601 Pembroke Road Bryn Mawr PA 19010 Doctor 7/10/2012 $50,000.00

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Pennsylvania? The same person (from 2008)?:

John Templeton Jr. goes after Barack Obama, gay marriage

October 22, 2008 |  9:24 pm

The world of big campaign donors is small.

A relative handful of the truly big donors give to an array of causes.

One is John Templeton Jr., a Pennsylvania physician who is the son of the founder of Templeton Mutual Funds. He started out the presidential campaign backing Mitt Romney, but now is in John McCain’s camp, and has given more than $100,000 to federal campaigns since 2007.

Templeton also is playing in California. He is the second-largest individual donor supporting Proposition 8, the initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California by creating a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Now, Templeton is taking on Barack Obama. He donated $800,000 of a $1.3-million ad purchase to an independent campaign group, Let Freedom Ring….

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that our media isn’t talking about McSame’s inability to seal the deal with a significant number republican voters in the republican presidential primaries?

For instance, last night in Indiana:

McCain 317,837 77%

Huckabee 41,018 10%

Paul 31,481 8%

Romney 19,480 5%

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That’s 23% of the voters casting their ballot for someone else.

Then there’s North Carolina:

McCain 381,138 73%

Huckabee 62,917 12%

Paul 40,275 8%

No Preference 20,305 4%

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“No preference” did quite nicely, especially since they didn’t spend any money.

And finally, of recent presidential primaries, there’s Pennsylvania:

McCain 587,210 73%

Paul 128,483 16%

Huckabee 91,430 11%

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Wow. Over 200,000 republican primary voters in Pennsylvania didn’t vote for McSame. What’s he going to have to do to get their votes?

Tweety and the other cable network talking heads haven’t brought this up, have they? I wonder. It must not fit their selected narrative.

It’s going to be a long slog to November.