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Marriage Equality Legal In All 50 States!
Topic Started: Jun 26 2015, 09:51 AM (128 Views)
Tybee
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Bigoted anuses all over America are puckering in anger as I type. :rofl Scalia is pissed. Hopefully he'll have a stroke.


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Washington (CNN)In a landmark opinion, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that states cannot ban same-sex marriage, establishing a new civil right and handing gay rights advocates a victory that until very recently would have seemed unthinkable.

The 5-4 ruling had Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority with the four liberal justices. Each of the four conservative justices wrote their own dissent.

The far-reaching decision settles one of the major civil rights fights of this era -- one that has rapidly evolved in the minds of the American pubic and its leaders, including President Barack Obama. He struggled publicly with the issue and ultimately embraced same-sex marriage in the months before his 2012 re-election.

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family," Kennedy wrote. "In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were."

In a dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia blasted the Court's "threat to American democracy."

"The substance of today's decree is not of immense personal importance to me," he wrote. "But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in today's judicial Putsch."

The relevant cases were argued earlier this year. Attorney John Bursch, serving as Michigan's Special Assistant Attorney General, defended four states' bans on gay marriage before the Court, arguing that the case was not about how to define marriage, but rather about who gets to decide the question.

The case came before the Supreme Court after several lower courts overturned state bans on gay marriage. A federal appeals court had previously ruled in favor of the state bans, with Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals writing a majority opinion in line with the rationale that the issue should be decided through the political process, not the courts.

Fourteen couples and two widowers challenged the bans. Attorneys Mary Bonauto and Doug Hallward-Driemeier presented their case before the Court, arguing that the freedom to marry is a fundamental right for all people and should not be left to popular vote.

Three years after President Barack Obama first voiced his support for gay couples' right to marry, his administration supported the same sex couples at the Supreme Court.

"Gay and lesbian people are equal," Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. told the justices at the oral arguments earlier this year. "It is simply untenable -- untenable -- to suggest that they can be denied the right of equal participation in an institution of marriage, or that they can be required to wait until the majority decides that it is ready to treat gay and lesbian people as equals.

The same-sex couples who challenged gay marriage bans in Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio were just a few of the estimated 650,000 same-sex couples in the United States, 125,000 of whom are raising children.

The challenges included same-sex couples who wanted to marry, those who sought to have their lawful out-of-state marriage recognized, as well as those who wanted to amend a birth or death certificate with their marriage status.

The lead plaintiff in the case is Jim Obergefell who married his spouse John Arthur in 2013 months before Arthur died.

The couple, who lived in Ohio, had to travel to Maryland aboard a medical jet to get married when Arthur became gravely ill. And when Arthur died, Obergefell began to fight to be recognized as Arthur's spouse on his death certificate.

The plaintiffs from Michigan are April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, two Detroit-area nurses who are also foster parents. They took to the courts after they took in four special-needs newborns who were either abandoned or surrendered at birth, but could not jointly adopt the children because Michigan's adoption code requires that couples be married to adopt.

Sgt. Ijpe Dekoe and Thomas Kostura became plaintiffs in the gay marriage case after they moved to Tennessee from New York.

The pair had married in New York in 2011, but Dekoe's position in the Army took the couple to Tennessee, which banned gay marriage and refused to recognize gay marriages performed in other states.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/index.html
Edited by Tybee, Jun 26 2015, 10:49 AM.
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Roctopus

The Supreme Court did the right thing and ruled in our favor! Equal marriage coast to coast.
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Roctopus

How incredible to think that there will be marriage equality even in places where they still fly the Confederate flag. This is a great day for America!
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Wow, what a wonderful announcement to see on this site, first thing in the morning. The flag and smile and happiness projected was just perfect.

Many thanks and gratitude to those who fought for equal rights for all Americans in years past, the small and large battles. These are the real heroes we should salute. Those who stepped forward at great peril to themselves and their families.

Today should really be a day to celebrate this ruling and how fortunate we are to live in America.
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Oh, and I forgot...... This ruling also covers Puerto Rico.

Time for you, Mrs PC to get there, fine some nice size-pleasing Rico Pinga, marry him, settle down, and be happy!

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Erna
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Does this mean that it is the same as breeder marriage in every way?

A sister can marry a rich man and then call the divorce lawyer and take the man for million$$$$ just like a fish would?
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Roctopus

How many of you guys on here are married? I was just wondering if anyone here lives in a state where marriage equality will be new as a result of this decision.

My partner and I will get married once I am working and we have money for a wedding. When the law passed in New York I was still too sick and now that we've waited we should definitely do it right and that takes $. Plus, I want to be done with school and settled and everything. That should be in the next few years. We've been together 15 years...since the dawn of the new millennium! Ha Ha
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What about Guam?
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BenZ

Has FFC weighed in, or did he keel over?
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Erna
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Although we have experienced the most devastating misery on the Hershey Highway it did start us on the road to financial independence!
Edited by Erna, Jun 30 2015, 03:03 AM.
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We don't care about Puerto Rico- they're $90 billion in debt (you know how gay men hate poor people).
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Erna
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federal debt matters only as a % of true GDP
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BenZ
Jun 29 2015, 03:02 PM
Has FFC weighed in, or did he keel over?
I was wondering that too.
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