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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @07:59PM
Care to point out the contradiction?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @09:43PM
Yes, I await his explanation.
I expect there will be none because articulating it will require too much self-examination of his own biases and the cognitive dissonance will cause him to just run away from it rather than admit to himself that his deeply held beliefs are contradictory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @10:50PM
He's probably getting married under a confederate flag right now. Cut him some slack.