And then there were 19

With U.S. District Judge John Jones striking down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage, There are now 19 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow couples to marry, regardless of their quotient of X and Y chromosomes.

Counting Pennsylvania, nearly 44 percent of Americans now live in states that allow gay unions, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

Freedom to Marry counts it a little differently, including states that honor out-of-state same-sex unions but excluding states where the rulings that overturned restrictive laws are stayed pending appeal (and its tally has yet to include Pennsylvania). Its number a little lower, but it is still pushing 40 percent.

While there is not yet word from Governor Tom Corbett — a conservative Republican with low approval numbers facing a tough fight to keep his job — on whether Pennsylvania will appeal, America’s direction seems clear. With seven states now hearing appeals to court rulings that struck down their marriage bans and cases pending in almost every other state with a same-sex prohibition, it appears to be only months, if not weeks, until over half the U.S. population will live in states that grant full marriage equality.