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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage

posted by takyon on Friday June 26 2015, @05:30PM   
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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• Re:To queer for me Re:To queer for me (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @07:46PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @07:46PM (#201723)

  but they don't support the idea that things won't change, either.

  So what? You never want anything to change, or what?

  You've heard of the "unintended consequences" thing before, I hope.

  I'm not quite sure what unintended consequences will follow from allowing people of the same sex to marry one another. Do you have evidence that anything bad will happen, or are you just opposed to changing anything because it might somehow lead to something bad?

  Can't get rid of mass surveillance. Something bad might happen. Can't get rid of big government. Something bad might happen. Can't get rid of slavery. Something bad might happen. This logic is ridiculous.

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• Re:To queer for me (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @03:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @03:12AM (#201969)

  I wouldn't spend too much time or effort deconstructing Runaway's arguments. He hates faggots. It's that simple.

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• Re:To queer for me (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:28PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:28PM (#202205)

  You never want anything to change, or what?

  That's the definition of conservatism.

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