Here’s one more brick in the road to Appomattox, Part Deux:
Supreme Court decisions or not, Defense Department orders or not, bigots are gonna be bigots. That’s the reminder we get from various states’ refusals to follow a direct order from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to give National Guard members in same-sex marriages the spousal benefits to which they are entitled. Bigots can take different routes, though. In Texas, they’re simply refusing to do it, sending same-sex couples to federal facilities that might be hundreds of miles away. Oklahoma, by contrast, has stopped processing spousal benefits for everyone, apparently figuring it doesn’t count as discrimination if you treat everyone equally badly in order to be allowed to treat some people badly.
If they could have banned public restrooms rather than integrating them, they would have done so.