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[Muck FcDisney]

Gay Marriage Upheld by Supreme Court in Close Ruling

WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in the 5 to 4 decision. He was joined by the court’s four more liberal justices.

The decision, the culmination of decades of litigation and activism, came against the backdrop of fast-moving changes in public opinion, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve of same-sex marriage.

As in earlier civil rights cases, the Supreme Court had moved cautiously and methodically, laying careful judicial groundwork for a transformative decision.

As late as October, the justices ducked the issue, refusing to hear appeals from rulings allowing same-sex marriage in five states. That decision delivered a tacit victory for gay rights, immediately expanding the number of states with same-sex marriage to 24, along with the District of Columbia, up from 19.

The court did not agree to resolve the issue for the rest of the nation until January, in cases filed by gay and lesbian couples in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The court heard extended arguments in April, and the justices seemed sharply divided over what the Constitution has to say about same-sex marriage.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs said their clients had a fundamental right to marry and to equal protection, adding that the bans they challenged demeaned their dignity, imposed countless practical difficulties and inflicted particular harm on their children.

The Obama administration, which had gradually come to embrace the cause of same-sex marriage, was unequivocal in urging the justices to rule for the plaintiffs.

“Gay and lesbian people are equal,” Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. said. “They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.”

Lawyers for the four states said their bans were justified by tradition and the distinctive characteristics of opposite-sex unions. They added that the question should be resolved democratically, at the polls and in state legislatures, rather than by judges.

The Supreme Court had once before agreed to hear a case arising from a constitutional challenge to a same-sex marriage ban, California’s Proposition 8, in 2012 in Hollingsworth v. Perry. At the time, nine states and the District of Columbia allowed same-sex couples to marry.

But when the court’s ruling arrived in June 2013, the justices ducked, with a majority saying the case was not properly before them, and none of them expressing a view on the ultimate question of whether the Constitution requires states to allow same-sex marriage.

A second decision the same day, in United States v. Windsor, provided the movement for same-sex marriage with what turned out to be a powerful tailwind. The decision struck down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that barred federal benefits for same-sex couples married in states that allowed such unions.

The Windsor decision was based partly on federalism grounds, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s majority opinion stressing that state decisions on how to treat marriages deserved respect. But lower courts focused on other parts of his opinion, ones that emphasized the dignity of gay relationships and the harm that families of gay couples suffered from bans on same-sex marriage.

In a remarkable and largely unbroken line of more than 40 decisions, state and federal courts relied on the Windsor decision to rule in favor of same-sex marriage.


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Y4NK33 PL4N3T 4 minutes ago
Such great news!!However, I believe there are 20 other countries that have already reached this decision. We should be thrilled, but hard to when you're so butthurt from all the ass-poundings.
bigbluebazooka 4 minutes ago
Thank you justice Kennedy! Time to go chug some jizz! I will be thinking of President Obama the whole time!
aubzheimer's 4 minutes ago
Wonder if Roberts will be forgiven now? I can't wait to post this article... in 3 months!
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[bigbluebazooka]

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[Muck FcDisney]

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I'm indifferent. If homos want to have their colon wrecked, that's not my problem... until I have to pay for their repairs (thanks again, Dems!). But that's a small price to pay to shut up the whiny homos for a while. :2thumbs

You, on the other hand, were going to be a lil' butthurt regardless of the outcome. :dog

[bigbluebazooka]

were going to be a lil' butthurt regardless of the outcome. :dog

Wish you luck with that. As long as my tax dollars doesn't support this then I really don't give a fuck.

[Muck FcDisney]

were going to be a lil' butthurt regardless of the outcome. :dog

Wish you luck with that. As long as my tax dollars doesn't support this then I really don't give a fuck.

Butt you'll take a fuck in celebration! :bananasex

[bigbluebazooka]

were going to be a lil' butthurt regardless of the outcome. :dog

Wish you luck with that. As long as my tax dollars doesn't support this then I really don't give a fuck.

Butt you'll take a fuck in celebration! :bananasex

Depends if I like her backpage profile. :up

[frazier9495]

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[Muck FcDisney]

were going to be a lil' butthurt regardless of the outcome. :dog

Wish you luck with that. As long as my tax dollars doesn't support this then I really don't give a fuck.

Butt you'll take a fuck in celebration! :bananasex

Depends if I like her backpage profile. :up

Strap-ons, eh? Well, I'm not here to judge. :lolthumb

[bigbluebazooka]

were going to be a lil' butthurt regardless of the outcome. :dog

Wish you luck with that. As long as my tax dollars doesn't support this then I really don't give a fuck.

Butt you'll take a fuck in celebration! :bananasex

Depends if I like her backpage profile. :up

Strap-ons, eh? Well, I'm not here to judge. :lolthumb

You live in the ATL. Tell Sellulard and 20oz I said :wave2

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck thinks of anonymous men & immediately runs to TSH to poast. :thought



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[frazier9495]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck thinks of anonymous men & immediately runs to TSH to poast. :thought



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His gay what :thought

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck thinks of anonymous men & immediately runs to TSH to poast. :thought



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His gay what :thought

I do not know nor do I want to know. :surrender That's for the ghey's to ghey about on their own time.

[Muck FcDisney]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck thinks of anonymous men & immediately runs to TSH to poast. :thought



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His gay what :thought

:biglol @ :fail

[Muck FcDisney]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck naturally thinks of TSH's liberal faggots, eventually posts about it, causing all of TSH's living :homo s to take the bait as expected. :trolldance

Fixed for troof! :up

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck naturally thinks of TSH's liberal faggots, eventually posts about it, causing all of TSH's living :homo s to take the bait as expected. :trolldance

Fixed for troof! :up

"Living" ? :youfail Ghey boi :dog & :lol: @ 2x replies

[Muck FcDisney]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck naturally thinks of TSH's liberal faggots, eventually posts about it, causing all of TSH's living :homo s to take the bait as expected. :trolldance

Fixed for troof! :up

"Living" ? :youfail Ghey boi :dog & :lol: @ 2x replies

Are you a zombie homo? Is DA?

2x replies?


You don't make a lot of sense when you're butthurt, :sorry

[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck naturally thinks of TSH's liberal faggots, eventually posts about it, causing all of TSH's living :homo s to take the bait as expected. :trolldance

Fixed for troof! :up

"Living" ? :youfail Ghey boi :dog & :lol: @ 2x replies

Are you a zombie homo? Is DA?

2x replies?


You don't make a lot of sense when you're butthurt, :sorry

Is anyone dead? Calling people who poast "living" anything is retarded :sadyes

'2x replies' as in you replied twice to your own thread thus showing twice the butthurt you've sustained thus far.

[Muck FcDisney]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck naturally thinks of TSH's liberal faggots, eventually posts about it, causing all of TSH's living :homo s to take the bait as expected. :trolldance

Fixed for troof! :up

"Living" ? :youfail Ghey boi :dog & :lol: @ 2x replies

Are you a zombie homo? Is DA?

2x replies?


You don't make a lot of sense when you're butthurt, :sorry

Is anyone dead? Calling people who poast "living" anything is retarded :sadyes

'2x replies' as in you replied twice to your own thread thus showing twice the butthurt you've sustained thus far.

Aubz. I was obviously implying that aubz is dead. How could you miss that? :dog And yes, differentiating between the living and dead is retarded. :lolthumb

Yes, I replied to fraz then I replied to you. That's how forums work: people communicate, sometimes more than one at a time. :shocker I imagine it's possible that you could look more desperate and pathetic at this point, but I'm not sure how. I'm sure you'll show us. ;)

[JdPat04]

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[Y4NK33 PL4N3T]

Gay Marriage topic and Muck naturally thinks of TSH's liberal faggots, eventually posts about it, causing all of TSH's living :homo s to take the bait as expected. :trolldance

Fixed for troof! :up

"Living" ? :youfail Ghey boi :dog & :lol: @ 2x replies

Are you a zombie homo? Is DA?

2x replies?


You don't make a lot of sense when you're butthurt, :sorry

Is anyone dead? Calling people who poast "living" anything is retarded :sadyes

'2x replies' as in you replied twice to your own thread thus showing twice the butthurt you've sustained thus far.

Aubz. I was obviously implying that aubz is dead. How could you miss that? :dog And yes, differentiating between the living and dead is retarded. :lolthumb

Yes, I replied to fraz then I replied to you. That's how forums work: people communicate, sometimes more than one at a time. :shocker I imagine it's possible that you could look more desperate and pathetic at this point, but I'm not sure how. I'm sure you'll show us. ;)

Aubz been runnoft so long I forgot he poasted :surrender