Same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana are unconstitutional. That’s the decision by a U.S. appeals court in Chicago today.
The vote by the three-judge panel at the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was unanimous. This increases the number of states where same-sex marriage will be legal to 21.
Judge Richard Posner chastised opponents of same-sex marriage during oral arguments last month: he said the bans were derived from “hate… and savage discrimination,” comparing them to laws that once barred interracial marriage in America.