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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @09:29PM
You have fallen victim to the fallacy that hypocrites are hypocrites 100% of time. Of course he didn't get to where he is by being a hypocrite all of the time. However, of all the justices he is the most insistent on his own righteousness. He is very explicit about his own principled reasoning but that righteousness is what makes him so blind to his failings.
And the fact that he and ginsburg are buds only proves that the common experience they have - an experience practically no one else on the planet has and very few are able to understand - creates a strong bond. Maybe they both have little else in their lives to occupy them. Ex-presidents from different parties are often buds too - being members of en elite and powerful club tends to do that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @10:06PM
There's not a single good person in the Supreme Court, from what I see.