Love Wins: US Supreme Court Says ‘Yes’ To Marriage Equality
June 26, 2015 by Michael Stone
Same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. In a
historic victory for justice, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the
Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry.
Writing for the 5-4 majority in the historic case, a
supremely elegant Justice Anthony Kennedy declared:
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. 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 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. The judgment of the Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed.
It is so ordered.
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