All of you people betting that Alabama would be the last hold out just lost your money (I’m still counting on you, Mississippi!). And boy, did Judge Callie Granade have some good things to say:

“There has been no evidence presented that these marriage laws have any effect on the choices of couples to have or raise children, whether they are same-sex couples or opposite-sex couples,” Granade wrote in Friday’s ruling. “In sum, the laws in question are an irrational way of promoting biological relationships in Alabama.”

No shit? You mean gay people getting married has absolutely no bearing on how many children straight people produce? Who’d have thunk it? I mean, besides anybody with at least a single functioning neuron…

“If anything, Alabama’s prohibition of same-sex marriage detracts from its goal of promoting optimal environments for children,” Granade writes. “Those children currently being raised by same-sex parents in Alabama are just as worthy of protection and recognition by the State as are the children being raised by opposite-sex parents. Yet Alabama’s Sanctity laws harms the children of same-sex couples for the same reasons that the Supreme Court found that the Defense of Marriage Act harmed the children of same-sex couples.”

But how can that be? We’re always told by anti-gay activists that gay marriage harms children. Meanwhile all the psychological experts say the exact opposite. Could it be that good Christians would lie?

Even better news: the 11th Circuit presides over Alabama. The 11th Circuit just denied Florida’s request to lift their stay. Tee hee!

Welcome to the party, Alabama! I hope your state survives all the exploding heads and is still around tomorrow so LGBT citizens of your state can enjoy their newly won equality.

Roll gay tide. 🙂