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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the Uned Stat Friday a closely divid lg that will stand as a tone s 226-year jtic led 5-4 that stat nnot ny gay men and lbians the same marriage rights enjoyed for thoands of years by oppose-sex upl. "Wh mut, unty clerks Michigan, one of the stat beg sued by same-sex upl, said they would beg issug marriage licens to gay and lbian upl.

The fal turng pot me 2013, when the high urt forced the feral ernment to regnize same-sex marriag and allowed them to rume the urt upheld gay marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Tennsee and Kentucky, would have jeopardized feral urt lgs strikg down siar bans 20 of the 37 stat where same-sex marriage has been clared legal. Quickly, the number of gay marriage stat uld have been cut half. Instead, the urt's fdg that same-sex upl have a right to marry unr the Constutn will make gay marriage legal the remag 13 stat, om Geia to North Dakota.

And will make battl over relig-eedom and non-discrimatn laws the next battleground the natn's ntug stggle wh gay rights. Kennedy had thored the last three major lgs advancg the e of gay rights, cludg the 2013 opn Uned Stat v. For that reason, he was wily expected to be the thor of the lg that brgs gay marriage to all 50 four of the more nservative jtic dissented separately.

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Roberts argued that whether gay marriage is right or wrong is a qutn that belongs the natn's legislatur, not s urts. "The urt had sistepped the issue last October, when let stand appeals urt lgs agast gay marriage bans Virgia, Indiana, Wisns, Oklahoma and Utah. As a rult, more than 70% of Amerins already live stat where gay marriag are legal, and tens of thoands of upl have tied the November, Circu Judge Jefey Sutton issued a 42-page appellate cisn sayg the matter should be left to voters, not judg like himself wh lifetime appotments.

Proponents argued that marriage is a fundamental right for any two people regardls of genr, and that the due procs and equal protectn cls of the Constutn give gays and lbians equal marriage rights. Opponents said the prohibns have a ratnal basis, were not enacted out of anim toward gays and lbians, and are a matter of stat' rights. But startg 1996, stck down laws allowg discrimatn agast gays, banng sodomy, and nyg feral benefs to legally married same-sex upl.

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And while took another for the first dozen stat to follow su, tw lgs 2013 -- agast DOMA and clearg the way for gay marriag California -- igned a send wave.

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In the last year alone, the number of gay-marriage stat has more than doubled om 17 to 37.

Throughout the battle, a patient legal strategy, savvy public relatns mpaign and superr fancg and anizatn propelled the gay marriage movement past an outgunned and unrfund opposn. By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged. As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.

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