** Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Americans Are Ready for Gay Marriage **

[William769]

(Bloomberg) -- Americans are prepared to accept a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, pointing to what she described as a sweeping change in attitudes toward gays.

In an interview Wednesday in the court’s oak-paneled east conference room, Ginsburg also said President Barack Obama’s health-care law, which is under attack in a case before the Supreme Court next month, will be a central part of his legacy.

The 81-year-old justice discussed the public’s increasing acceptance of gays against the backdrop of resistance by Alabama officials to a federal court order that took effect Monday and made it the 37th gay-marriage state. With the high court set to rule on the issue by June, she said it “would not take a large adjustment” for Americans should the justices say that gay marriage is a constitutional right.

“The change in people’s attitudes on that issue has been enormous,” Ginsburg said. “In recent years, people have said, ‘This is the way I am.’ And others looked around, and we discovered it’s our next-door neighbor -- we’re very fond of them. Or it’s our child’s best friend, or even our child. I think that as more and more people came out and said that ‘this is who I am,’ the rest of us recognized that they are one of us.”

The number of gay-marriage states has soared in recent years, largely because of court rulings. Only 12 states permitted such unions in June 2013, when the Supreme Court threw out part of a law that denied federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. The majority’s reasoning in that case prompted lower courts to strike down bans on gay marriage.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-12/ginsburg-says-u-s-ready-to-accept-ruling-approving-gay-marriage-i61z6gq2

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Good for the Notorious RGB!

[William769]

2. I have always loved her.

If we only had more just liker her.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. She's quite a woman.

[William769]

4. Yes she is.

Now we meed one as Commander-In-Chief! Whoever the Democrats pick.

[William769]

10. ...

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. That's my RBG!

[riderinthestorm]

5. Love her! K&R nt

[Rex]

6. Well she is a very smart lady, I hope that is true because it needs to happen.

Americans need to realize that if we are the leaders of the Free World, we need to prove it. What worries me the most are these scary republican fundamentalists and what they might do. It seems they would rather blow up the world, than change with the rest of us.

[William769]

7. They are definitely crazy.

We just have to make sure to keep them in check.

And thanks for your support through the years.

[Rex]

8. Thanks for fighting the good fight all these years and not giving one inch.

It is very inspiring! I just worry about the GOP since they only seem a few degrees away from wanting us to live in a hellhole like Putin's Russia. Your posts always keep my hoping for a better future William. With your passion, you should have been a politician!

Never to late bro.

[William769]

9. Well thank you for the vote of confidence.

And you are right, you never know.