Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage Nationwide – @ForeverMeah

The Supreme Court has just ruled that gay marriage is legal nationwide, in a huge victory for gay-rights advocates just a little over a decade after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage.

Justice Anthony Kennedy issued the 5-4 ruling, finding that the Fourteenth Amendment — which guarantees "equal protection under the law" and the right to "due process of law" — requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex.

The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons can together find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality," Kennedy wrote. "This is true for all persons, whatever their sexual orientation."

In his ruling, Kennedy expressed why marriage is necessary for true gay equality. 

"As the state itself makes marriage all the more precious by the significance it attaches to it, exclusion from that status has the effect of teaching that gays and lesbians are unequal in important respects," he wrote.

Later on in the opinion, Kennedy wrote, "Especially against a long history of disapproval of their relationships, this denial to same-sex couples of the right to marry works a grave and continuing harm."

(source: NPR, Business Insiders)

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