Ruling in Alabama Marriage Equality + Overestimating the Gay Population

        The Mobile Federal Judge who ruled in favor of marriage equality earlier in the year has now expanded her order, which is on hold pending next month's U.S. Supreme Court decision.
     Here's reaction in a email from Equality Alabama, a pro-marriage equality group. 

STATEMENT FROM EA BOARD CHAIR BENJAMIN NEWBERN 
ON LATEST ALABAMA MARRIAGE EQUALITY RULING

Late this evening, United States District Court Judge Callie Granade again struck down the ban on marriage equality in Alabama.

Granade expands the cases before her as a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center. In her new order, she names all probate judges as defendants, and has laid a clear and direct path ahead for marriage equality in Alabama when the United States Supreme Court rules next month. Her decision has been stayed until the outcome of that case, Obergefell v. Hodges.

Equality Alabama applauds Judge Granade for finally undoing the chaos and confusion that Attorney General Luther Strange, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, and others have intentionally caused. For far too long, LGBT Alabamians have been denied the fundamental and personal right of marriage and the more than 1,000 legal rights and responsibilities that come with it.

With today's ruling, the message is clear. Marriage equality is coming to Alabama, and those state officials who boldly reject long-held constitutional principles have caused undue harm to far too many. 

Meanwhile, Gallup is out with a poll indicating people widely overestimate the percentage of the gay population:

 The entire Gallup results are here.

[UPDATE: On Saturday, May 23, 1915, the vote count in Ireland indicated that country had become the most recent to approve of same-sex marriage...despite fierce opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.]