Gay marriage legal in all 50 states

[Bigred_inSD]

You should probably prepare for all those floods and damage to the Earth that God is going to do....

 

This is a terrific and historic day for America. Great job SCOTUS

 

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-gay-marriage-ruling-highlights-n382431?cid=sm_fb

[Scratchtown]

It is what it is.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Welp...and so begins Fox's slippery slope argument of all of us soon marrying our goats!

[NUance]

Welp...and so begins Fox's slippery slope argument of all of us soon marrying our goats!

 

Ha ha! I doubt if it'll come to that. Well, maybe in Iowa.

 

[teachercd]

This is awesome! I can't wait to see how crazy Nebraska deals with this because most of us know "they" will not handle it well.

[Notre Dame Joe]

It's a great day in judicial activism. Move over Roe v Wade.

[Landlord]

Good. It's about damn time.

[zoogs]

Holy moly.

 

Is this really happening?

 

How many states were we at before, 20, 30?

 

Great dissent, Justice Scalia...?

 

"I join THE CHIEF JUSTICE's opinion in full. I write separately to call attention to this Court's threat to American democracy. The substance of today's decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance. Those civil consequences—and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences—can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today's decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court."

 

"Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."

[The Dude]

[Scratchtown]

Well I guess now the pot movement will be next.

 

Finally we can put the LGBT thing behind us and treat it as normal.

 

I don't believe in it but hopefully today's decision takes it out of the media when someone decides to come out of the closet

[krill]

[Ratt Mhule]

Man, the facebook comments from the religious nutjobs are hilarious! "the devil is having a great day today" was the last one I could read without falling out of my chair laughing.

[zoogs]

NY Times: A profound ruling delivers justice on gay marriage

 

 

To the list of landmark Supreme Court decisions reaffirming the power and the scope of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law — from Brown v. Board of Education to Loving v. Virginia to United States v. Windsor — we can now add Obergefell v. Hodges (...)

 

As news of the ruling came out on Friday morning, opponents of same-sex marriage struggled to fathom how the country they thought they understood could so rapidly pass them by. But in fact the court’s decision in Obergefell fits comfortably within the arc of American legal history.

I remember when President George W. Bush was campaigning for a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. And the dissenting opinions today, as well as the lower courts that previously upheld the state-level bans at stake here, felt that this was a "social issue" and social change that should be up to voters and those processes -- meaning, I suppose, if we wanted a nationally enforced change it should have required an amendment saying so.

 

It always seemed to me something that the Supreme Court had to decide. We have this Constitution that supposedly grants equal protection to everybody under the law. Where states have decided to blatantly ignore this, they should have been met with a legal challenge, and they should have been smacked hard in the face with the 14th amendment. Which they have.

 

From Justice Kennedy:

 

“The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have seemed natural and just, but its inconsistency with the central meaning of the fundamental right to marry is now manifest. With that knowledge must come the recognition that laws excluding same-sex couples from the marriage right impose stigma and injury of the kind prohibited by our basic charter.”

Justice Scalia can go [insert cheeky Scalia-ism here] with his hysterical claims about "super-legislative power" from the judiciary and threats to American democracy.

[BigRedBuster]

Man, the facebook comments from the religious nutjobs are hilarious! "the devil is having a great day today" was the last one I could read without falling out of my chair laughing.

Oh good Lord....I just looked.

 

Honestly, I didn't realize some of the people I know are as much of a bunch of idiots until the last year or two on social media and their horrific predictions because of something that happens they don't believe in. It honestly is scary anymore what people believe when they read something on the internet and think they need to post it on Facebook or Twitter. Many times it absolutely makes no common sense when you step back and read what they post.

[Micheal]

It's a great day in judicial activism. Move over Roe v Wade.

Roe vs Wade has, as of January this year, led to the death of 57,762,169 lives.