Gay Marriage - DOMA, 14th Amendment & Supreme Court | HISTORY

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• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

“The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch. The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage.

”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang. ”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor.

Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs.

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Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a crime.