Thom could you please address this stupid backwards decision...

"Looking beyond the fact that any inquiry into the ability or willingness of a couple actually to bear a child during marriage would violate the fundamental right to marital privacy recognized in Griswold, 381 U.S. at 484-86, 493, 85 S. Ct. at 1681, 14 L. Ed. 2d 510, the fundamental right to marriage and its ensuing benefits are conferred on opposite-sex couples not because of a distinction between whether various opposite-sex couples actually procreate, but rather because of the possibility of procreation."
-Judge Glenn Harrell, Jr.

Today the state’s highest court ruled that it is constitutional to deny the rights and protections of marriage to committed same-sex couples in Maryland. Equality Maryland knows that this discrimination is wrong, and we won’t be deterred. The lesbian and gay Marylanders who brought this case along with the ACLU and Equality Maryland have important reasons for seeking the protections of marriage. They have been shut out of hospital rooms during the illness of a partner, lost a home after the death of a partner, denied the ability to live in the same country as a partner, and have been forced to go without health insurance because they cannot get coverage through a partner. Some are raising children and want their children to have the additional security that comes only through marriage. Others are retired, or near retirement, and worry about their future well-being without the protections of marriage.