NO RATIONAL RELATIONSHIP?: Maggie Gallagher

A lower court judge just struck down Washington state's DOMA, which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same day Missourans overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment despite the fact that SSM advocates outspent opponents by something like 40 to 1, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

(The main argument offered by the Human Rights Campaign and other pro-SSM groups was that Missouri didn't need a constitutional amendment because it already had a DOMA law.)

As in Goodridge, the Washington court cited Lawrence v. Texas as obviously relevant to the same-sex marriage debate. As in Goodridge, the judge not only could find no "compelling" state interest in marriage as the union of husband and wife, but no "rational relation" to any legitimate state interest.

No reason at all, I guess, why just about every known human society tries to bring male and female together in a special relation called marriage.

For a copy of the Washington state court decision striking down the state DOMA, go here (PDF).

posted by Eve at 3:21 PM VOTE

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