Supreme Court Rulg Means Gay Marriage Is Vulnerable | Time

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• READ THE FULL SUPREME COURT CISN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

READ THE FULL SUPREME COURT CISN ON GAY MARRIAGE

In a landmark opn, a divid Supreme Court on Friday led that same-sex upl n marry natnwi, tablishg a new civil right and handg gay rights advot a historic victory.

Nearly 46 years to the day after a rt at New York’s Stonewall Inn hered the morn gay rights movement, the cisn uld settle one of the major civil rights fights of this era. Kennedy has wrten the opn signifint gay rights s and when he uttered the key sentence that same-sex upl should be able to exercise the right to marry all stat, people the Court’s public gallery broke to s and some wiped tears om their ey. Hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters flood the plaza and siwalk ont of the Court to celebrate the lg, proudly wavg rabow flags and banners wh the Human Rights Campaign’s equal sign, which have e to reprent the gay rights movement.

US SUPREME COURT TO LE ON GAY MARRIAGE

WATCH: Obama lls gay marriage se platiff Jim Obergefell. For gay marriage, wh about two-thirds of Amerins now favor. And as gay rights groups have seen gay marriage bans fall rapidly recent years, wh the number of stat allowg gay marriage swellg most recently to 37 – that is, until this lg.

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

Attorney John Bursch, servg as Michigan’s Special Assistant Attorney General, fend four stat’ bans on gay marriage before the Court, argug that the se was not about how to fe marriage, but rather about who gets to ci the qutn. The se me before the Supreme Court after several lower urts overturned state bans on gay marriage. Three years after Obama first voiced his support for gay upl’ right to marry, his admistratn supported the same sex upl at the Supreme Court.

“Gay and lbian people are equal, ” Solicor General Donald B. “It is simply untenable – untenable – to suggt that they n be nied the right of equal participatn an stutn of marriage, or that they n be required to wa until the majory cis that is ready to treat gay and lbian people as equals.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Ie Dekoe and Thomas Kostura beme platiffs the gay marriage se after they moved to Tennsee om New York. The pair had married New York 2011, but Dekoe’s posn the Army took the uple to Tennsee, which banned gay marriage and refed to regnize gay marriag performed other stat.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

Mike Huckabee, said that nservativ mt stand and fight by seekg a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage. Mart O’Malley tweeted a photo of the fay at the center of his state’s efforts to legalize gay marriage.

The 5-4 op­n, wr­ten by Jtice An­thony Kennedy, will stand as a land­mark civil rights law and cul­m­at a two-c­a long stggle for gays and l­bi­ans to w mar­riage equal­y un­r the Con­sti­tu­tn. 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. ”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks.