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Landmark decision rules that denying same-sex marriage is a violation of the constitution's equal protection clause
June 26, 2015 9:53AM ET |Updated 10:29AM ET
In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal across the country, an outcome that is the culmination of two decades of litigation over marriage and ? rights generally.
? and lesbian couples already can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The court's ruling means the remaining 14 states, in the South and Midwest, will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage, which the high court said constitutes a violation of the constitution's equal protection clause.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, just as he did in the court's previous three major ? rights cases dating back to 1996.
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family," Kennedy wrote, joined by the court's four more liberal justices. "[The challengers] ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."
The ruling will not take effect immediately because the court gives the losing side roughly three weeks to ask for reconsideration. But some state officials and county clerks might decide there is little risk in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The cases before the court involved laws from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Those states have not allowed same-sex couples to marry within their borders and they also have refused to recognize valid marriages from elsewhere.
Just two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal anti-? marriage law that denied a range of government benefits to legally married same-sex couples.
The decision in United States v. Windsor did not address the validity of state marriage bans, but courts across the country, with few exceptions, said its logic compelled them to invalidate state laws that prohibited ? and lesbian couples from marrying.
The Obama administration backed the right of same-sex couples to marry. The Justice Department's decision to stop defending the federal anti-marriage law in 2011 was an important moment for ? rights and President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage in 2012.
The number of states allowing same-sex marriage has grown rapidly. As recently as October, just over one-third of states permitted same-sex marriage.
There are an estimated 390,000 married same-sex couples in the United States, according to UCLA's Williams Institute, which tracks the demographics of ? and lesbian Americans. Another 70,000 couples living in states that do not currently permit them to wed would get married in the next three years, the institute says. Roughly 1 million same-sex couples, married and unmarried, live together in the United States, the institute says.
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as ? and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jude 1:5-11
Jude 1:5-11
Landmark decision rules that denying same-sex marriage is a violation of the constitution's equal protection clause
June 26, 2015 9:53AM ET |Updated 10:29AM ET
In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal across the country, an outcome that is the culmination of two decades of litigation over marriage and ? rights generally.
? and lesbian couples already can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The court's ruling means the remaining 14 states, in the South and Midwest, will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage, which the high court said constitutes a violation of the constitution's equal protection clause.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, just as he did in the court's previous three major ? rights cases dating back to 1996.
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family," Kennedy wrote, joined by the court's four more liberal justices. "[The challengers] ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."
The ruling will not take effect immediately because the court gives the losing side roughly three weeks to ask for reconsideration. But some state officials and county clerks might decide there is little risk in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The cases before the court involved laws from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Those states have not allowed same-sex couples to marry within their borders and they also have refused to recognize valid marriages from elsewhere.
Just two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal anti-? marriage law that denied a range of government benefits to legally married same-sex couples.
The decision in United States v. Windsor did not address the validity of state marriage bans, but courts across the country, with few exceptions, said its logic compelled them to invalidate state laws that prohibited ? and lesbian couples from marrying.
The Obama administration backed the right of same-sex couples to marry. The Justice Department's decision to stop defending the federal anti-marriage law in 2011 was an important moment for ? rights and President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage in 2012.
The number of states allowing same-sex marriage has grown rapidly. As recently as October, just over one-third of states permitted same-sex marriage.
There are an estimated 390,000 married same-sex couples in the United States, according to UCLA's Williams Institute, which tracks the demographics of ? and lesbian Americans. Another 70,000 couples living in states that do not currently permit them to wed would get married in the next three years, the institute says. Roughly 1 million same-sex couples, married and unmarried, live together in the United States, the institute says.
Al Jazeera and The Associated Press
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Women protect ya snatch. ? protect ya ? holes.
Its gonna get real ? n Gommory out here. -
Barak need to Pass that reperation act.
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I'm becoming a divorce attorney.
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The white man is a natural ? . This was to be expected .
Time to psychologically if not physically detach from the United states of America -
good for them
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The white man is a natural ? . This was to be expected .
Time to psychologically if not physically detach from the United states of America
Both are necessary. The next few years will be interesting in the US -
Good for the US
Won't stop hate crimes but good nonetheless -
? can marry, black president , confederate flags coming down,hard time to be a a bigot
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StoneColdMikey wrote: »? can marry, black president , confederate flags coming down,hard time to be a a bigot
Presidents are just servants don't be an idiot. And that flag coming down means nothing -
Glad this ? passed. Took long enough.
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The apathy is concerning...
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Why cats get so aggy about what the next family does in there own house??
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Why cats get so aggy about what the next family does in there own house??
How can two complete strangers getting married possibly affect your life?
It doesn't but now can we stop the comparison between blacks and ? -
#lovewins
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If you can allow interracial marriage, you can allow ? marriage; one paradigm manifest in non-procreation, and one results in the procreation of non-black children (black only by the white man imposed one drop rule system, design to keep the black race impure with DNA from other races, while his remains pure).
However, this is nothing but another distraction. Whenever their is a point of awareness amongst blacks, they always come along with a tactic (a social drug), which is designed to play at your sub-conscious/conscious, as a means to exploit the reality, to get you to forget whats happening in the real world. Sex is typically used, especially interracial sex.
The supreme court ruling is design so people can forget/ become unconscious about the Charleston shooting.
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Why cats get so aggy about what the next family does in there own house??
How can two complete strangers getting married possibly affect your life?
This is why blacks are ? up. You have to have concerns about what your neighbors do in there house because they will eventually affect your house -
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Congrats to the little homies Stiff and zombie, you phaggots can finally put a ring on it.
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Why cats get so aggy about what the next family does in there own house??
How can two complete strangers getting married possibly affect your life?Don't give a ? who the next man/woman marry or ? is none of my business.
Divorce lawyers about to make a killing tho
This is why I care...4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and ? hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Rev 18:4-6
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
Gen 19:12-13
What others do CAN affect us....
This is why I (we) do what we do....
1 I charge thee therefore before ? , and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
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I dont hate anyone...and we all make our own choices, but it would be selfish of me to not try to warn people, even if they dont agree.
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Why cats get so aggy about what the next family does in there own house??
How can two complete strangers getting married possibly affect your life?
This is why blacks are ? up. You have to have concerns about what your neighbors do in there house because they will eventually affect your house
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Its over
