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A federal judge ruled Friday that Michigan’s law banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
The ruling comes two weeks after a trial challenging the marriage ban concluded. April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, two Detroit-area nurses, challenged the state law that stopped them from adopting each other’s children. Their lawsuit also included a challenge to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage that Michigan voters adopted a decade ago.
In his ruling, Judge Bernard Friedman said that Michigan, in defending the ban, had “lost sight of what this case is truly about: people. No court record of this proceeding could ever fully convey the personal sacrifice of these two plaintiffs who seek to ensure that the state may no longer impair the rights of their children and the thousands of others now being raised by same-sex couples.”
Judge Friedman was appointed in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan.
More unconstitutional legislating from the bench by unelected people in black robes.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the court's decision in regards to this, isn't the job/role of the courts to interpret the U.S. Constitution (regardless of whether or not you think that they interpreted the U.S. Constitution correctly)?
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Equality for marriage is spreading across the nation. Congrats to the Michiganian couples who plan to tie the knot 
