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stevenleser

(32,886 posts) Mon Jan 12, 2015, 05:23 PM Jan 2015

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South Dakota Same Sex Marriage Ban Struck down

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/south-dakota-gay-marriage_n_6458402.html

A judge ruled South Dakota's gay marriage ban unconstitutional on Monday.

U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier wrote that the plaintiffs in the case "have a fundamental right to marry."

"South Dakota law deprives them of that right solely because they are same-sex couples and without sufficient justification," Schreier wrote.

The decision is stayed pending a possible appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.