September 4, 2014

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In an opinion by Judge Richard Posner, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in Wolf v. Walker and Baskin v. Bogan that same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana are unconstitutional.

The opinion can be read here. Posner writes:



To return to where we started in this opinion, more than unsupported conjecture that same-sex marriage will harm heterosexual marriage or children or any other valid and important interest of a state is necessary to justify discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. As we have been at pains to explain, the grounds advanced by Indiana and Wisconsin for their discriminatory policies are not only conjectural; they are totally implausible.

It is unanimous. There doesn’t appear to be a stay, but it takes weeks for the mandate to issue in appeals courts.

Equality on Trial will have more updates soon.

Thanks to Equality Case Files for these filings

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