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Gay Marriage Ban - Overturned.

Plenty of articles on it.  Not even going to bother linking to any.

This is one battle conservatives should stop fighting.  It really hurts no one, and most polls on it show a dead even or "in favor" outcome.

The timing on this is no accident.  The State Democratic Convention is in full swing and Mary Burke spoke today.  There will be an attempt to paint it as evidence of a resurgence in progressivism in WI and a repudiation of Republican/Conservative ideals and, simultaneously, Scott Walker.

Ideally, this would have come about as the result of a poll in the form of a binding, statewide referendum instead of a politically timed judge's ruling - but it didn't.  Still, the time has come to acknowledge that expanding the right to legally marry, along with the other rights and responsibilities that it carries with it, to gay couples isn't a threat to anyone.  

If gay folks want to settle into a life of "not getting any", far be it from the rest of us to stand in their way.

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