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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: atrainradio on June 26, 2015, 1518 UTC

Title: Love has won!
Post by: atrainradio on June 26, 2015, 1518 UTC

I never get political here, but this is just utterly fantastic news. All you need is love man, that's all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gay-marriage-and-other-major-rulings-at-the-supreme-court/2015/06/25/ef75a120-1b6d-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer reserve the right only for heterosexual couples.

The court’s action marks the culmination of an unprecedented upheaval in public opinion and the nation’s jurisprudence. Advocates called it the most pressing civil rights issue of modern times, while critics said the courts had sent the country into uncharted territory by changing the traditional definition of marriage.

“The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. He was joined in the opinion by the court’s liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

All four of the court’s most conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented and each wrote separate opinions.

Reading a dissent from the bench for the first time in his tenure, Roberts said, “This is a court, not a legislature.”

The country’s first legally recognized same-sex marriages took place just 11 years ago, the result of a Massachusetts state supreme court decision. Now, more than 70 percent of Americans live in states where same-sex couples are allowed to marry, according to estimates.

Title: Re: Love has won!
Post by: John Poet on June 28, 2015, 2351 UTC

The Radical and I are having preliminary discussions about possibly
getting married on the air.


No, we're not actually Gay,
but the Supreme Court ruling has flung the doors wide open
to hetro-sexual same-sex marriage as well, so WTF.

This is just one of those unintended consequences that
Glenn Beck et al failed to warn everyone about....

I'm just not sure how I'm going to break the news to Bristol....