A Gay-Rights Ruling in Texas, A Veto in Arizona

“Holmes honorably served our nation for nearly twenty-three years and retired as a Major at the end of 2010,” Judge Orlando Garcia, of the Western District of Texas, wrote in an order, issued Thursday, finding the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Victor Holmes and Mark Phariss brought the case after they had been denied a marriage license because they were both men. Cleopatra de Leon—“a United States Air Force veteran,” Garcia noted, “honorably discharged after te...