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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage

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

DrMundane writes:

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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:19PM (#201652)

    This only way this can be good is if it gets the government out of the marriage business.

    That would be great.

    it looks to me like a serious roflstomp on states' rights.

    The ruling is that the states can't stomp on a US citizen's constitutional rights to equal protection under the law, which is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment (Collect the whole set!).

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  • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Friday June 26 2015, @06:30PM

    by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Friday June 26 2015, @06:30PM (#201667)

    If a state passes a law that business partnerships can be formed only between individuals of opposite sex, I think people from both sides of the aisle would stand up and say that law is unconstitutional.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:39PM (#202213)

    "States rights" is just a euphemism [wikipedia.org]. Its short for "States rights to trample on their citizen's basic rights".

    Slavery was the 1860s' Gamergate.