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Fourth Circuit becomes second appeals court to strike down same-sex marriage ban

Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrrillo, plaintiffs in the last marriage case to hit the Supreme Court, on their decision day. It's likely marriage equality is headed back to the Supreme Court, hopefully to be settled in the law for once and for all. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage, holding, in a two-one vote, that it is unconstitutional: The decision, by Judge Henry Floyd acknowledged both the debate over such laws and, in the court’s view, the clear constitutional impediment to laws banning same-sex couples from marrying. “We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable,” he wrote.

 

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