After the Supreme Court declined to hear same sex marriage cases in Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Indiana on Monday, clerks in all five states quickly began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
Nicole Pries, center left, and Lindsey Oliver of Richmond kiss each other as they celebrate their same-sex marriage outside of the John Marshall Courts Building in Richmond, Va., on Monday. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Daniel Sangjib Min)
Donald Durst, left, and Michael Wolfe walked back to their car after legalizing their marriage license at the city’s Circuit Court office Monday in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, The’ N. Pham)
Jennifer Melsop, 26, left, and Erika Turner, 26, from Centreville, Va., embrace after they were officially pronounced married by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles, center, who officiated their marriage in front of the Arlington County Courthouse in Arlington, Va., Monday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Gregory Enke and spouse Ariel Ulloa celebrate after getting married at the Salt Lake County clerk’s office in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Katie Burris, left, and her partner Evangeline Cook embrace after receiving their marriage license at the Marion County Clerks office in Indianapolis, Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Sara Yarbrough, and Lauren Tidwell, wait for their paperwork to be processed at the Oklahoma County Annex Building while applying for a marriage license Monday. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul B. Southerland)
I’ll have my Schadenfreude on the rocks tonight, thank you.
Teabagger Reaction:
More at 11.
It’s over, bigots. Look at the demographics. The only age groups opposing marriage equality are what can kindly be referred to as “Waiting for God.”
It’s amazing how quickly people grew up.
I blame Queer Eye and Ellen.
What do Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, and Indiana have in common?
These were all states won by George W. Bush in 2004 – the same election in which gay marriage bans were placed on the ballot in 11 states, thanks to Karl Rove’s wedge politics. The GOP deliberately chose to demonize gay people in order to maximize the hate vote, and it worked. All 11 bans passed, and hate-voter turnout was sufficient to deliver Ohio to GWB (with a little help from Ken Blackwell diluting the African American vote).
I don’t even like weddings that much, but to see these perfectly innocent, normal people, whose only crime was loving someone the right wing disapproved of, rising up after having been punching bags for the GOP and earning the right to finally marry and have their marriages recognized by the state, it brings tears to the eyes. And to think that it is happening in two of the most conservative (i.e., hate-filled) states in the nation…
Schadenfreude doesn’t begin to describe it.