New Mexico makes it 17 down, 33 to go.

[Doubting Thomas]

“Procreation,” wrote Justice Edward L. Chavez, author of the opinion, “has never been a condition of marriage under New Mexico law, as evidenced by the fact that the aged, the infertile and those who choose not to have children are not precluded from marrying.”

Finally an official voice of reason! This is what we've been telling the homophobic fuckheads all this time!

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I think I've figured out why religionists in general are so set against same-sex marriage. It isn't a homosexual issue or a procreation issue or a gay-couples-raising-children or a tradition issue or any of the other thousand and one 'reasons' they frequently trot out. I'm honestly beginning to suspect it's a happiness issue.

I believe (but cannot prove) that religious adherence in a society is inversely proportional to the level of general happiness in that society.

You could be on to something, but I think it has more to do with conservative Christians seeing their dominance and control of the country eroding even further. First, gay people were let out of the closet, unlike the 1950's when they kept their sexual preference a secret because they could lose jobs and be persecuted in other ways. But now, the con-Christians are totally opposed to gay marriage because allowing gay marriage legitimizes homosexuality, and they can't have that. They're still clinging to hope that everyone in the country will start listening to them again and force gays back in the closet. You and I know that'll never happen, but they're still holding to hopes it will, because frankly that's all they've got. They probably know that gay marriage is an inevitability in this country, and fighting a rear guard action (no pun intended) is about all they can do at this point in time. To allow gay marriage in their minds gives homosexuality legitimacy and in their minds is giving up the fight to the dark forces of Satan.