LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California violated the Constitution, all but ensuring that the case will proceed to the United States Supreme Court.

THIS is the step that is considered to be progress and THIS is what you ought to be celebrating. This is the step that has the potential to lead to the country as a whole to recognize same-sex marriage as MARRIAGE, not that one individual state has now allowed it. The fact that individual states are allowing it is only showing that people of those state are opening their mind, not that you are federally being created equal. The Supreme Court of the United States is what is going to decide that.