The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday made
marriage for same-sex couples legal
nationwide, declaring
that refusing to grant marriage licenses to
gay and lesbian couples violates the
Constitution.
The landmark ruling will produce the most
significant change in laws governing
matrimony since the court struck down state
bans on inter-racial marriage almost 50
years ago.
The majority opinion in the 5-4 decision was
written by Justice Anthony Kennedy.
“No union is more profound than marriage,
for it embodies the highest ideals of love,
fidelity,
devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a
marital union, two people become something
greater than once they were,” Kennedy wrote.
“As some of the petitioners in these cases
demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that
may endure even past death.”
Kennedy went on to speak directly to the type
of criticism that often comes from
conservatives in
pushing back against marriage equality.
“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,” Kennedy said. “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.”
A total of 36 states now permit gay couples to
get married, covering roughly 70 percent of
the US
population. Today’s ruling means the bans
must end in the other 14 states of Alabama,
Arkansas,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee and
Texas.
The decision capped a remarkably quick
turnaround in public and judicial acceptance
of same-sex marraige. In the past 18
months, court rulings struck down marriage
bans in rapid succession, nearly 60 separate
decisions in more than half the states.
Today’s ruling overturned a decision from the
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati,
which said states had legitimate reasons for
maintaining the
traditional definition of marriage. The appeals
court also said it would be better “to allow
change
through the customary political processes”
instead of the courts.
Public opinion has shifted dramatically in
recent years. The first Gallup poll on the
subject showed only 27 percent approval for
same-sex marriage in 1996. Gallup’s most
recent poll, taken last month, showed 60
percent approval.

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That means say you no fit beat the man up wey come toast you?

The Beginning of the end for the USA

Good day for humanity.

As long as it makes them happy. This world would be a better place if everyone is allowed to do whatever they wish to as long as it is not detrimental to other people's existence...

Won't be surprised if some strange happenings take place in the U.S. in the coming days!
Remember Sodom & Gomorrah

lolaxavier:
As long as it makes them happy. This world would be a better place if everyone is allowed to do whatever they wish to as long as it is not detrimental to other people's existence...

Life is governed by rules. Everything in life is governed by Certain rules.
No one or country created himself or itself.
The One who owns life and created Man and woman gave his rules. Wen you go against it, you go against your Existence!

US is doomed...Barack Obama just signed their death warrant

lolaxavier:
As long as it makes them happy. This world would be a better place if everyone is allowed to do whatever they wish to as long as it is not detrimental to other people's existence...

What is this one saying

Turning back from God might look so easy but the grievous consequence is beyond measure.