5-4 SSM WIN!!!!.SCOTUS--OBERGEFELL---OPINION... [View all]

[msanthrope]

http://www.scotusblog.com/

Oh, please....


WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kennedy Reading Majority.....four dissents to be read.....

HERE's THE OPINION...rests on Equal Protection and Fundamental Rights!!!

(2) The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change. Changes, such as the decline of arranged marriages and the abandonment of the law of coverture, have worked deep transformations in the structure of marriage, affecting aspects of marriage once viewed as essential. These new insights have strengthened, not weakened, the institution. Changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf