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posted by takyon on Friday June 26 2015, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the love-and-divorce dept.

In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that states can not prevent same-sex couples from marrying and must recognize their marriages from other states. In the majority opinion by Justice Kennedy it is stated:

The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold—and it now does hold—that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character.

...and:

It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:18PM (#201651)

    To queer for me

    You are becoming queer just because of this ruling?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:47PM (#201681)

    His Freudian slip is showing.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by M. Baranczak on Friday June 26 2015, @06:47PM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Friday June 26 2015, @06:47PM (#201682)
    Runaway tried to warn us, but we wouldn't listen!
  • (Score: 2) by Kell on Saturday June 27 2015, @01:45AM

    by Kell (292) on Saturday June 27 2015, @01:45AM (#201944)

    To queer - and beyond!

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