And South Carolina will soon become the 34th. 
"South Carolina is the latest state to say it will go to the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in Charleston struck down that state’s ban on Wednesday, citing the precedent of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which covers Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas.
Gergel said the ruling will not take effect for a week, and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) said he would ask the Supreme Court to continue the stay. Wednesday night’s action would seem to make that task more difficult."
That's a slap in the face for state Democrats like Vincent Sheheen who were instrumental in passing the amendment.
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The only thing that is not laughable about your statement is that Sheheen has indeed never come out in favor of SSM. But the idea that an almost freshman
* Democratic State Senator in the Republican dominated State Senate was
instrumental is sending the amendment to the voters in 2006 to be overwhelmingly approved is absolutely ludicrous. Even had the Democrats been totally united against SSM in 2005-6, it still would have been approved by the General Assembly and then by the people in the 2006 referendum to ratify it.
* Sheheen had been elected to his first full term as Senator in 2004, but he had first advanced to the Senate in a special election earlier in 2004.
