The
US Supreme Court today June 26th ruled that same-sex marriages must be
recognized in all 50 states of the United States of America. Texas will
probably appeal.
From The Washington Post
The
Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights,
ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be
allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer
reserve the right only for heterosexual couples.
The
court’s action marks the culmination of an unprecedented upheaval in
public opinion and the nation’s jurisprudence. Advocates called it the
most pressing civil rights issue of modern times, while critics said the
courts had sent the country into uncharted territory by changing the
traditional definition of marriage.
“Under
the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal
treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices
and diminish their personhood to deny them this right,” Justice Anthony
Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.
He
was joined in the ruling by the court’s liberal justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
All
four of the court’s most conservative members — Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A.
Alito Jr. — dissented and each wrote a separate opinion, saying the
court had usurped a power that belongs to the people.
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