Supreme Court Rules for Nationwide Gay Marriage Equality
Victory! Let the Pride party begin!
It’s 5-4. Chief dissents, joined by Scalia and Thomas.
Holding: Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex, And to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when a marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state.
The Court’s opinion relies on the dual rationales of fundamental rights AND equal protection.
The opinion appears to echo Windsor in its dual rationales: Marriage is a fundamental right in which homosexual couples must share, and it would also be a violation of equal protection to extend that right only to heterosexual couples.
Victory! Let the Pride party begin!
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