Florida’s employee-owned Publix Supermarkets, based out of Lakeland, has announced that it will be giving a belated Christmas present to “any couple married in any state,” including those couples who are bound in a same-sex marriage.

Starting tomorrow, or January 1, 2015, any Publix employee will have the opportunity to enroll and receive dental, health, and vision benefits to couples ” married in any state, regardless of the laws where the worker lives.”

The decision from the employee-owned company comes as Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and others fight to uphold Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage, despite a federal judge’s ruling striking down the 2008 state constitutional amendment.

We knew this would happen. Look, many of you oppose gay marriage on face value. I tend to think that everyone should have the opportunity to marry and lose half of their assets ‘when’ they get divorced.

I personally don’t care about who gets married to whom, but the issue I have is with activists judges who think they can force same-sex marriage done our throats, and then try to force religious institutions to conduct same-sex marriages against their beliefs and teachings.

That is were I draw the 10 items or less express line.

“Attention any Publix employees, there is clean up needed on aisle 7 right next to the rainbow flags and ‘I honk for hunks’ bumperstickers.”