Judge strikes down Arkansas ban on same sex marriage.

Courtesy of Buzzfeed:

A state judge in Arkansas declared his state’s ban on marriages between same-sex couples to be unconstitutional, the latest of several judges to have done so since the Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act last June. 

Circuit Court Judge Christopher Piazza issued the decision — finding both a state statute and constitutional amendment to violate the U.S. Constitution — following a hearing in the case last month. 

Under the U.S. Constitution, Piazza ruled, “the Arkansas marriage laws implicate both a fundamental right and the rights of a suspect or quasi-suspect class.” The fundamental right at issue is the right to marry and the class at issue is same-sex couples, per Piazza’s ruling. 

Although he believed such heightened or strict scrutiny could be applied to the challenge — making it more likely the ban would be struck down — he did not believe the level of scrutiny ultimately mattered: 

You know I am sort of waiting for the conservatives to finally recognize the futility of their attempts to deny gays the right to marry.

At this point discriminating against the LGBT community in any way is right up their with using the "N" word. In other words everybody knows it is terrible, and yet people in the South will still try to get away with it.