Poor poor Rick Santorum. You try to keep America on the moral straight and narrow, and then it all blows up in your face. Like when you fight for the appointment of a tough-as-nails conservative judge who reverses your home state's ban on gay marriage.

This afternoon in Pennsylvania, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III overturned a 1996 ban on gay marriage, stating that "we are a better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history."

A Pennsylvania judge struck down the state's gay-marriage ban on Tuesday, just one day after another judge ruled against Oregon's similar ban.

Plantiffs in the federal suit over Virginia's ban on gay marriage, Emily Schall-Townley, Carol Schall, and Mary Townley, raise their arms after a hearing on Virginia's same sex-marriage ban in Richmond on Tuesday. Image via Steve Helber/AP.

An Arkansas judge struck down the state's gay-marriage ban on Friday. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza said the 2004 constitutional amendment is discriminatory, though the state's attorney general is expected to appeal the ruling to the Arkansas Supreme Court.

There's still time for you to vote for the anti-gay marriage ex-drag queen in today's North Carolina GOP primary for Senate. As he puts it: "Regardless of what I did in my twenties—remember to VOTE today—vote conservative and vote after praying." And DANCE after voting. In Lucite platforms!

A club owner in North Carolina has told the Winston-Salem Journal that Steve Wiles, an anti-gay marriage GOP senate candidate, was a drag queen working under the name Miss Mona Sinclair in the early 2000s.

If there's one thing Mark "Chris" Sevier loves, it's jerking off. If there's another, it's filing lawsuits. The man who sued Apple because it sold him a computer that allowed him to get addicted to porn is now getting involved in Florida's gay marriage debate by demanding he be allowed to marry that same porn-infested computer.

Judge Timothy Black said in federal court Friday that he will order Ohio to recognize out-of-state marriages. The order will be a step towards recognizing gay marriages in Ohio, but the state will still keep its ban on performing same-sex marriages.

The rainbow flag flies over a building next to Nelson's Column monument in Trafalgar Square in central London on Friday. It marks the start of same-sex weddings in the UK, which will begin at midnight on Saturday. Image via Lefteris Pitarakis/AP.

A federal judge struck down Michigan's ban on gay marriage today, saying it is unconstitutional. The decision comes on the heels of similar moves in other states.

Chick-Fil-A's CEO says he hasn't changed his mind about opposing gay marriage but regrets speaking publicly about it: "It's probably very wise from our standpoint to make sure that we present our brand in a compelling way that the consumer can relate to."

Big day for gay marriage in Texas: First a federal judge ruled that Texas' ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and then Dan Patrick, a Texas state senator running for lieutenant governor, said on Twitter that marriage equals one man and one man.

A federal judge has declared the Texas law banning gay marriage unconstitutional, although a stay has been issued to keep the law in place for the time being.

Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today.

A federal judge just struck down Kentucky's law banning the state from recognizing gay marriages performed out-of-state, saying: "No one has offered any evidence that recognizing same-sex marriages will harm opposite-sex marriages."

Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce on Monday that he will instruct the Justice Department to extend full and equal protection to same-sex marriages in all of the programs it oversees. Among the considerations granted in the policy memo are that same-sex couples cannot be compelled to testify against one another in court, that they can apply jointly for federal bankruptcy, and that federal inmates can avail themselves of the same allowances as other married couples such as in visitation rights. Also it's mandatory that people stop bitching about Looking now.

A U.S. district judge has ruled Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. But same-sex couples can't head to the courthouse just yet, as the ruling is on hold pending appeals.

The Heritage Foundation hates hates hates government tyranny in your life. That's why it endorses a new "bipartisan" congressional bill to make sure you gays know your goddamn place.