Sunday marked an overlooked anniversary in church-state separation history: It was 15 years ago that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unconstitutional then Alabama Judge Roy Moore’s display of the Ten Commandments at the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery.

A federal court rightly issued a permanent injunction that will prevent Alabama officials from enforcing the state’s ban on the marriage of same-sex couples, Americans United for Separation of Church and State says.   In an order issued today in