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Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage
The U.S. Supreme Court issued Friday a landmark decision, ruling that marriage is a Constitutionally protected right to homosexual as well as heterosexual couples. The New York Times notes that last year, by refusing to hear appeals to decisions favoring same-sex marriage in five states, the court "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." (In the time since, several more states have expanded marriage to include gay couples.) Reuters expains a bit of the legal and political history of the movement which led to today's decision, and points out some of the countries around the world which have made similar moves already.
First, congrats to all LGBT and to America as a whole.
Second, to Justice Scalia, in Nelson Munt's voice - HAW HAW. Your dissent was entertainingly shrill and dubious.
But I'm already married to my job!
I believe it falls under the "stuff that matters" clause. Although I have no doubt Scalia will dissent with that.
Making something out of nothing : MD5 ("") = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Thank you for being so anti-hate. It's unfortunate when people are hateful. Again, thanks for the loving sentiment.
the comments about this on the foxnews site are just crazy. the postings are exploding with rage... its kinda scary.
From Fish v. Oregon: "There's nothing in the constitution guaranteeing that water is wet. Therefore, any determination by this body that it is wet is nothing more than hand-waving gobbledy-gook."
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
It seems unlikely that there are any gay nerds. Nerds are a fraction of the general population. Gay people are an even smaller fraction of the general population. This would make the existence gay nerds seem highly unlikely.
Similarly, the odds that in the vastness of space, an asteroid could just happen to strike our moon seems so incredibly remote that one could safely conclude that there are no craters on the moon.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
I know I won't marry anyone soon. My wife won't let me.
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
If 2 people want to get married, they have every right to be as miserable as every other married couple.
Haven't Gay's suffered enough?