When a Federal Court threw out the recently passed marriage amendment to the Nebraska constitution.
"When a Federal Court threw out the recently passed marriage amendment to the Nebraska constitution."
Yeah, that was a horrible decision, though it's an exaggeration to say the court read gay marriage (or protection of such) into the US Constitution. Rather, the court (idiotically) said the Nebraska state constitution couldn't BAN it and civil unions, leaving it up to the Nebraska legislature. Now, a state has every right to amend its own Constitution; the legislature must then work within those parameters. That's what a constitutional democracy is. But it's not like, say, Lawrence v. Texas, where the court said there's some magical Constitutional right to commit sodomy.