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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, Informative) by khallow on Friday June 26 2015, @07:36PM
That bit is easy enough. Now, let's wait 50 to 100 years, and see what the societal results of this crazy shit will be.
It'll be a society that has moved on and found something new to get weirded out by. There will be changes just as there have been with allowing women and African Americans to vote - mostly good. Really, it shouldn't be any of government's business who or how many people decide to shack up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @09:13PM
Are you kidding? Society is heading for a disaster of Biblical proportions! Old Testament, real wrath of God type of stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!