Don’t get too excited. The judge made the ruling on procedural grounds–not on a question of civil rights.


AP:

ATLANTA — A judge on Tuesday struck down Georgia’s ban on same-sex marriage, saying a measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2004 violated a rule that limits ballot questions to a single subject.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell said the state’s voters must first decide whether same-sex relationships should have any legal status before they can be asked whether to ban same-sex marriages.

“People who believe marriages between men and women should have a unique and privileged place in our society may also believe that same-sex relationships should have some place ? although not marriage,” she wrote.

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