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A Federal Judge on March 11, 2014 declared Texas' ban on gay marriage unconstitutional but stayed his decision pending an appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Judge Orlando Garcia of U.S. District Court in San Antonio, wrote that the state's marriage laws demean the dignity of gay couples "for no legitimate reason." "Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution," the judge wrote.
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The Dalai Lama for the first time addressed same-sex marriage directly, calling it "OK" and an "individual's business" during an interview with Larry King early 2014.
While the Dalai Lama has continued (as recently as last month) to call gay sex a form of "misconduct" for Buddhists but not for others, who should "follow one's own teachings," he was pressed on marriage equality in an interview last week on Larry King Now.
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It seems like every day brings another falling domino in the fight for marriage freedom. February 2014's victory comes from Virginia, where a federal judge declared the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. The case, Bostic v. Rainey, looks a lot like every other marriage case -- loving and committed same-sex couples want nothing more than to have their love recognized by the state.
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