For a moment I read that as “MOre LEGIslaTING froM THE BEach” and thought…“Hey, not a bad idea.”
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Justice Roberts dissent is smarmy, butt hurt, and illogical.
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Etta James - At Last
The Opus Dei Catholics chose their personal religious dogma over the Constitution of the United States.
Impeach all 4 of them.
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From the ruling:
The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning. When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution’s central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed.
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Great week for America!
Bad week for Republicans!
Whoopee!
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I’m hoping he just strokes out. Really.
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Now the real 64,000 dollar question: what happens when southern states refuse to allow it anyway. We might be on the verge of another nullification crisis if we’re not careful.
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No union is more profound than marriage, for it embod- ies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people be- come something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. 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 con- demned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civiliza- tion’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.
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Two words: National Guard.
Holy Christmas!!
The Supreme Court ROCKS!
No more “Gay Marriage” or “Straight Marriage”…just MARRIAGE!
What a wonderful day and week this has been!
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Kennedy’s opinion is a beautiful piece of literature. Wonderful rhetoric, gorgeously presented.
" The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality. This is true for all persons, whatever their sexual orientation"
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. … [The challengers] ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
“The ancient origins of marriage confirm its centrality, but it has not stood in isolation from developments in law and society. The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change. That institution—even as confined to opposite-sex relations—has evolved over time."
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Bending towards justice all this week!!!
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Bravo!!
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Beautiful.
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More from the ruling:
The right of same-sex couples to marry that is part of the liberty promised by the Fourteenth Amendment is derived, too, from that Amendment’s guarantee of the equal protection of the laws. The Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause are connected in a profound way, though they set forth independent principles. Rights implicit in liberty and rights secured by equal protection may rest on different precepts and are not always coextensive, yet in some instances each may be instructive as to the meaning and reach of the other. In any particular case one Clause may be thought to capture the essence of the right in a more accurate and comprehensive way, even as the two Clauses may converge in the identification and definition of the right.
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Congratulations to the people who fought so long and hard for this outcome. I would post more but I’m busy trying to convince my right wing family and friends that they won’t have to marry someone of the same sex.
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Scalia’s dissent is hateful, petulant, partisan, stupid, un-American, anti-Constitutional and utterly ridiculous.
He’s not just angry about it. He’s taken leave of his senses.
In other words, it’s wholly typical.
“The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” he writes. “If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”
“And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation,” he writes. “But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in today’s judicial Putsch.”
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Which is ironic given that same-gender couples were barred from filing taxes jointly because they could not legally marry in many states.
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