** SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR ALL ** 5-4 vote!

[brooklynite]

Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when a marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state.

Dissents by all four "no" votes

[Glassunion]

1. Wooooot!

First Rec!!

[For Freddie]

69. Freddie is Happy!!!!!!

[bigwillq]

2. Woo Hoo!

[NuclearDem]

3. YES YES YES YES A THOUSAND MILLION TIMES FUCKING YES

[Shamash]

92. ^What he said

[csziggy]

4. Hooray!~

[Agschmid]

5. Wooohooo!

[Sunlei]

6. VICTORY!! Now can we please, get SCourt to remove prison Slavery from the 13th Amendment?

[malthaussen]

47. Is that up for review?

That would certainly make the corporations cry.

-- Mal

[Sunlei]

76. It should be changed,but yes the USA corps love the free slave labor.they rather pay workers 20cents

[underpants]

67. Found you. Three strikes and increased sentencing voted out 8-1

I am not sure if that is what you were referencing but when I saw the thread about it I had to get back to your post.


DU may have to go to Defcon 4 today

[Sunlei]

82. yup, the more in prison, the more "for Profit" wins

I meant our 13th Amendment, where slavery is still 'legal' for prisoners. Harmed our society for over 100 years now and increasing every year.

America has never really set aside slavery.

[3catwoman3]

137. Who was the...

...outlier on that one?

[underpants]

141. I can't find it

There is very little reporting on it

[underpants]

147. Alito

[valerief]

107. They'll probably do that. The TPP is designed for systemic slave labor. nt

[harrose]

118. You Are Aware, of course....

... that SCOTUS cannot overrule something in the Constitution. What you're looking for would require a Constitutional Amendment.

[G_j]

7. YAY!!!!!!!!

great news!!!

[Shrike47]

8. Yes, yes, yes! And the tears of the right will be delicious.

[AlbertCat]

91. "Oh the tears of unfathomable sorrow.....so delicious"

[tymorial]

130. To hell with those tears

The tears that we in the LGBTQ community and our allies are shedding are so very much sweeter.

[pink-o]

149. I can't stop crying! Talk about NSFW!

About 25 years ago, I had 2 friends who were a long-time couple, Rob and Todd. Todd got ill with AIDS and when he knew he was dying they went to a lawyer and drew up what they thought was an airtight will so that Rob would inherit everything that they were sharing anyway. Well, lo and behold, Todd's Fundie idiot family, who had disowned him years previous, found a loophole in the will, and got it nullified. They came and took everything that had any sentimental value as well as the new car and electronics. They didn't care about Todd, they only wanted to be sure the love of his life didn't get anything--cuz he was an immoral sinner, after all. I remember the memorial we all had where we pulled together and spoke about how things were just material, and we had the best of Todd because we loved him.

But it's so poignantly sweet to know this could never happen again! I raise a glass to equality and my beautiful friends who in their struggles and their deaths are the stones who paved the way.

[tymorial]

152. Ugh. what a truly sad example of human averice, greed and hate.

History has shown us that the most fervent believers are often horrible people on the inside that hide their bile and hatred with religious camouflage. Hell, it doesn't even have to be religion. How often have we seen people who profess tolerance and love while at the same time exhibit none of those traits in real life. Many blame religion but that is just as I said camouflage. Some people are just made broken. I'm sorry for your loss.

You're right though, it is definitely poignant that today Todd's wishes would be fulfilled and Rob would not have to suffer at the hands of greedy nasty bigots.

[SummerSnow]

9. Rethugs head exploding in 5...4...3...2...1

[underpants]

43. My wife texted me the same thing. ACA, Flair Houing, marriage, and the flags coming down

What a week!!!

[Horse with no Name]

55. I've already seen them calling to impeach Roberts

LOL

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

151. I'm down with that.

Impeach Roberts now, and let Obama name a replacement Chief Justice.

[calimary]

59. FANTASTIC!!!!! Yes, it's been a very encouraging week.

And THAT is MY "sincerely-held belief"!

[mimi85]

119. It would even be better if

ebay and amazon had really removed all the confederate stuff like they said they would. no sign of it yet. figures.

[Fritz Walter]

85. Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude,

Denn sie kommt von Herzen.

Translation: "Schadenfreude is the most beautiful kind of joy, because it comes from the heart."

Don't get me wrong! I'm happy for all the right reasons, but every once in a while it's fun to see karma bite hateful people in the ass.

[niyad]

109. so very true.

[Betty Karlson]

10. K&R

Get thee to the greatest page.

Please crosspost in LGBT

And thank God!

[a kennedy]

11. Oh yah, have to turn in to faux to see heads exploding......

could only watch for about 10 minutes yesterday on the health exchanges, but today, I'll try to watch a little longer.

[AwakeAtLast]

12. A historic day!

In a very historic week!

[brooklynite]

13. Next step: Red States threaten to not marry anyone.....

[Sheepshank]

22. they will get their asses sued.

and if they don't relent not onlyh will they end up marrying gay persons, but those persons will be rich too on the states dime.

[Jeff Murdoch]

65. Didn't Alabama already do this?

[project_bluebook]

71. They will try some sneaky tricks

Jim Crow type laws applied to gay couples, just like they use to keep people from voting.

[riderinthestorm]

14. Wow!! Four justices will go down in history as the bigots they are

way too close but so glad it's done.

[Sunlei]

96. are these SCJs the same ones who allowed segregation? or is that before their time? Justices stay...

until they die of old age.

[jmowreader]

114. Or until they retire.

This has been such a lousy week to be a Republican. Gay marriage bans are dead nationwide. The ACA has been upheld. And the Southern Swastika is falling all over our great land.

[Arugula Latte]

134. Yeah, I thought the same thing. It's disturbing it was so close, but,

oh well, we'll take it!

[cyberswede]

15. Sweet!

[DCBob]

16. Awesome!!

The Supremes are coming through for us!

[Coventina]

17. Hip-Hip Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So happy.
What a great day for ALL Americans!!

[msanthrope]

18. OPINION---

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

[Spazito]

19. Three wonderful decisions in two days...

Equal marriage, ACA and the Fair Housing Act!

Watching the celebration on television brings happy tears!

[Sheepshank]

20. holy crappola that was too close!!!

I'm happy and disappointed at the same time.

Clearly, there are those on the bench that would like to ensure the entire nation lives by their moral imperatives and religious doctrines.

[Exilednight]

21. Anyone have the link to opinion? I googled but no luck.

[riderinthestorm]

27. Post 18 nt

[Exilednight]

34. Thank you.

[Skidmore]

23. Congratulations!

It should never have been a question to come before the courts. We are all equal.

[longship]

24. From the live Blog... Important!

The opinion seems to go out of its way not to state a standard of scrutiny. Instead, it says, "It is now clear that the challenged laws burden the liberty of same-sex couples, and it must be further acknowledged that they abridge central precepts of equality . . . 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. The imposition of this disability on gays and lesbians serves to disrespect and subordinate them. And the Equal Protection Clause, like the Due Process Clause, prohibits this unjustified infringement of the fundamental right to marry." That's page 22.

This means a very broad interpretation.

The assenters did not want there to be any question.

[Fred Sanders]

39. It is indeed very broad, as was the Obamacare decision.

From the majority opinion, addressing the role of history in the constitutional analysis: "The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a character protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning."
by Kevin Russell 9:14 AM


A direct slap in the face to the "constructionism" approach of Scalia to the Constitution, and bodes well for future decisions.....I think Kennedy has had enough of being trolled.

[underpants]

46. Equal protection and Due Process this case was a no brainer

Just like Loving v. Virginia


We have 4 people officially on the public record as no brainers.

[Roland99]

52. Well, reaffirming they are "no-brainers"!

We've long known that to be true!

[stonecutter357]

25. K&R!

[Politicub]

26. K&R!!!!!

[LynneSin]

28. which one voted with our 4? Roberts or Kennedy?

I mean we know how those idiots Scalia, Thomas and Alito voted

This is great news today.

And today wasn't about giving special rights to same sex couples.

It was about creating equality for all people.

[riderinthestorm]

32. Kennedy. Roberts joined the bigot crew nt

[LynneSin]

35. Good for Kennedy. I figured Roberts would support equality but turns out he is an idiot afterall

At least he let people keep their health insurance.

But today reminds me why I will fight hard for whomever the democratic nominee is. I do not want any more bigots on the Supreme Court. I can only imagine who those Clowns in the GOP Clown car would nominate if any of them were to get into the White House.

[AlbertCat]

93. I figured Roberts would support equality but turns out he is an idiot afterall

I think it's the religion. It just make logic and sense fly out the window. And since the ONLY objections are religion based....

[Ikonoklast]

124. The RCC voting bloc on the SC.

Yeah, they would *never* let their religious beliefs come before what the Constitution clearly states.

[closeupready]

29. Maggie Gallagher is having a sad, no question.

[calimary]

72. Well Maggie, if you don't want gay marriage, then DON'T HAVE ONE!!!!!

Nobody's holding a gun to anyone else's head and forcing them to marry someone of the same sex.

Nobody's holding a gun to anyone else's head and forcing them to discard their opposite-sex marriage and replace it with a same-sex one.

Although, I sometimes wonder if - adding a gun into the picture might make them change their minds?

[AlbertCat]

97. Nobody's holding a gun to anyone else's head and forcing them to marry someone of the same sex.

Yeah...


just being forced to marry bicycles and hamsters.

[TM99]

30. About damned time!

This is great news.

[Fred Sanders]

31. Further from majority decision, it gets better:

The majority bases its conclusion that same-sex marriage is a fundamental right on "four principles and traditions": (1) right to person choice in marriage is "inherent in the concept of individual autonomy"; (2) "two-person union unlike any other in its importance to the committed individuals"; (3) marriage safeguards children and families; (4) marriage is a keystone to our social order. -

http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blog_of_opinions__June_26_2015#sthash.4jE59c0V.dpuf

And Scalia is going Full Fox Troll.

Again.

[malthaussen]

40. Can't say I like point 2...

... or see how it can be a point of law, but that's a different fight. 3 and 4 are iffy as well, as legal considerations. (They're all qualitative judgements, not concrete)

With the decision, I have no argument at all. Hope Justice Scalia and his homies have a nice day.

-- Mal

[MineralMan]

33. Dissents notwithstanding, we now have marriage equality throughout

the nation. Bravo SCOTUS!

[underpants]

36. YES!!!!

[m-lekktor]

37. yay!! k & R nt

[alarimer]

38. Well guess I can't use the old "I don't want to get married until it's legal for everyone" excuse

Guess I'm gonna need a new one.

But the taste of bigots tears is so very sweet.

[DVRacer]

144. Hahaha

My better half has a coworker that keeps saying that to his partner and her every time she wants to help plan their wedding. I wonder what his next excuse will be too. Thanks for making me chuckle I woke up in a lot of pain this morning and needed one.

[rocktivity]

41. To be honest, I'm not that surprised

If race can't be considered, how can sexual orientation?


rocktivity

[prayin4rain]

42. Yay! n/t

[luvspeas]

44. I am thinking so many things right now I can barely write...

So so happy for my friends and everyone in our country right now. The stories I have heard over the years...partners that can't say goodbye to dying loved ones...children tortured by removal from loving homes...couples who have gone to great lengths to assure the financial security of a partner in case of death who are denied access...and on and on...this is so much more than love. It's about justice.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. ^^^ this^^^ times a zillion.! n/t

[Gamecock Lefty]

48. What Really Makes Me Happy?

Maybe, just maybe, the country is moving left? FINALLY!!!

Now if we can just get rid of Thomas and Scalia!

[Gloria]

49. YES!!!!!!

ACA upheld, marriage rights...

Now...we have to clean up VOTING RIGHTS and get back to WOMEN!!!

[SunSeeker]

120. This broad application of the 14th Am equal protection clause has many applications.

It can be used to push back against humiliating abortion restrictions, as well as to invalidate voting restrictions that suppress the votes of the poor and minorities.

[Gloria]

156. Yes, and I'm wondering when ...or if it has been used

so far. I'm no lawyer, I keep hearing " undue burden", but not sure how it all ties tgether since Roe involved "privacy."

[SunSeeker]

158. The Equal Protection Clause is extremely powerful and up to now has been underutilized.

Roe's "undue burden" on 4th Am privacy is such a subjective standard. "Equal" is pretty clear.

Abortion is a simple medical procedure. It should be treated EQUALLY with other similar medical procedures. It should be left up to the woman and her doctor. If you don't have to watch a shaming video and have a medically unnecessary probe shoved up you to get a vasectomy, you should not have to do it for an abortion either. If vasectomies can be done in doctor's suites, so can abortions. If clinics performing vasectomies aren't required to have 12' wide hallways and surgeons with hospital admitting privileges, neither do abortion clinics.

[Gloria]

159. Well, I hope it can be used for women

And frustrated if it hasn't been used effectively so far...

Thanks for the details...

[SunSeeker]

160. Sadly, women are always last in line. nt

[Skinner]

50. YES!!!!!!!

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!

[Bobbie Jo]

51. Yes!!

K&R!!

[SidDithers]

53. Awesome...

Sid

[niyad]

113. that is a lovely image.

[BeeBee]

54. Happy Day!!!! n/t

[Roy Rolling]

56. I'm turning gay today!

This will now certainly turn people gay. Or, at least, gay-ish.

[raouldukelives]

57. Yessssss!!!

[LW1977]

58. WooHoo

Shove it, Santorum!

[Phentex]

60. It is so exciting!

No more stupid excuses from the haters!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

61. A WON-derful Day and Week !! +1,000,000

[randome]

62. The Berlin Wall is falling all over again.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[underpants]

64. Yes it does feel a bit like that

Flags coming down
Obamacare lives
Marriage equality
Three strikes and sentencing are out
Fair Housing Act ruling

WOW!

[bucolic_frolic]

63. Scalia calls the ruling a "Judicial Putsch"

No, Antonin, you're thinking of Bush v. Gore, remember?

You stopped the vote counting and decided who would rule us, which
is what your sorry derriere is whining about today.

[randome]

66. Let the pointless, whiny civil disobedience of the LOSERS begin!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[project_bluebook]

68. Great news for gay rights but

I still don't like the fact that 9 kings and queens hold so much power over this country.

[Jester Messiah]

70. And now, let's inflict on them the greatest insult an enemy can suffer.

Ignore them. (You know, after we're done laughing at them.) Their opinions don't matter anymore. It's over, they lost. Utterly.

[nolabear]

73. Joy! Joy! Joy! Joy! Joy!

I'm so happy I could bust.

[ismnotwasm]

74. Thank God!

What a great day!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

75. What a great day

No slimey, sneaky news dumps THIS Friday. I truly have tears in my eyes as I celebrate this ruling. No thanks to Roberts---oh, screw him---we didn;t need him after all.

[stage left]

77. K&R

At last!

[Crowman1979]

78. ELBOW FROM SKY, LANDING ON BRYAN FISCHER, & EVERY OTHER HOMOPHOBE!

BOO-YAH!

[UtahLib]

79. Truly, a decision to celebrate! nt

[Lint Head]

80. This is a wonderful day for our country!

[amuse bouche]

81. What a fantastic week

[B Calm]

83. Poor persecuted right-wing christians. . .

[amuse bouche]

99. I will never feel sorry for them

I am so sick of them trying to drag this country backwards

If they would keep their traps shut and worship behind closed doors, I could tolerate them

Until then......I'll just

[Ms. Toad]

84. So I didn't even have to get out of my pajamas or leave the house

to have the Supreme Court marry us.

Should have thought of that before we worked 8 years with our faith community to marry us. Way simpler

. . . now I'll have to see if I'm mentioned in the opinion - or at least the amicus brief I'm cited in.

[orleans]

86. IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!! n/t

[brer cat]

87. Let's hear those wedding bells ring out

all over America! It is a great day!!!!!!!!

[hifiguy]

88. Well, I was wrong. I honestly thought

Roberts would be in the majority.

But this is a GREAT DAY nonetheless!!

A great day for the country and especially for all our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters!

[AlbertCat]

89. So that was what I heard earlier.....

....religious bigots heads exploding

[SpankMe]

90. Wow.

This has been an unbelievably good week for our side of these issues - and with a conservative court.

We're winning the war. Let's not relent one bit.

[Kablooie]

94. Finally Scalia and Thomas can get married!

[AlbertCat]

98. Finally Scalia and Thomas can get married!

Boo-ya!

[Raster]

100. No, No, No... the decision said nothing about being able to marry your lap dog.

Scalia and Thomas will have to wait a bit longer.

[SunSeeker]

123. LOL

[Initech]

95. VICTORY!!!!

[Gothmog]

101. This is a great day for equality

[kelliekat44]

102. Three couples up in my family...going to be great receptions!!

[dmr]

103. I am so happy!

It's a good day in America. A good day, indeed.

[niyad]

104. about damned time!!

[sellitman]

105. I almost want to listen to Rush today

Nah.... Forget that.

Lol

[William769]

106. Kick & recommended.

[SpankMe]

108. From Scalia's disent:

"Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality (whatever that means) were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."

This kind of snark ('Ask the nearest hippie.' - really!) is beneath the dignity of the Supreme Court.

The man is headed into senility, and I don't mean that as a metaphor or mean-spirited characterization. I really sense that his mental capacity is waning due to age-related deterioration of the brain. Not Alzheimer's, since his memory still seems good. But I truly believe we're seeing the first steps toward dementia.

If it becomes more obvious within the next few years, I wonder what's involved in removing him from the court? Can his fellow justices relieve him of duty based on diminished capacity? Or, is an impeachment and removal by Congress a hard requirement?

[niyad]

115. great scott, that was almost like reading a serving of one of the alaska grifter's word

salads.

[SunSeeker]

126. Yes, to use Scalia's words, it's "pure applesauce."

"Pokery jiggery" even.

[niyad]

128. that is the second time I have seen that expression (the pokery one) in the last few days.

have not heard it used in years, and suddenly it seems to be in vogue again. any idea why?

[SunSeeker]

131. Scalia used it in his dissent to yesterday's 6-3 opinion upholding the ACA.

That is how he described the majority opinion's reasoning re the ACA.

[niyad]

132. I wonder if he even knows what the expression means.

[SunSeeker]

136. I've never heard the expression before Scalia used it.

What does it actually mean?

[niyad]

170. here:

Gray vs. grey? What's the difference?
jiggery-pokery
[jig-uh-ree-poh-kuh-ree]
IPA Syllables
Word Origin
noun, Chiefly British
1.
trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
2.
sly, underhanded action.
3.
manipulation:
After a little jiggery-pokery, the engine started.
Origin of jiggery-pokery Expand
1890-18951890-95; alteration of joukery-pawkery. See jouk, pawky, -ery
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jiggery-pokery
/ˈdʒɪɡərɪˈpəʊkərɪ/
noun
1.
(informal, mainly Brit) dishonest or deceitful behaviour or business; trickery
Word Origin
C19: from Scottish dialect joukery-pawkery
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jiggery-pokery
noun

Deception; trickery; skullduggery: or what some term jiggery-pokery/ could have prevented most of the jiggery-pokery

[1893+; probably fr Scottish joukery-paukery fr jouk, ''trick'']

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[alarimer]

110. And I had Mississippi in the betting pool as the last state to legalize it.

I would have won that bet too.

Thanks, Obama.

[heaven05]

111. I am glad for the SCOTUS ruling

but that same SCOTUS gutted and trampled into the dirt my Civil Rights protections, so my enthusiasm is muted.

[sheshe2]

164. I am sorry, heaven.

[niyad]

112. so has that tex-ass pastor set himself on fire yet? has that couple in oz filed

for divorce?

[3catwoman3]

139. To paraphrase President Obama's...

...masterful response to Willard in the debate - "Please proceed, preacher man."

[Duval]

116. Another vote for Freedom!

I didn't think this wold happen in my lifetime. After the disastrous "Citizens' United", we have seen the Supreme Court give thousands the right to health care, although this one can be improved, and now the right to marry for all LGBT.
I've seen thousands of happy faces on TV. Obama's remarks were, well, remarkable.

[fishwax]

117. .

[whatthehey]

121. Wondrous. Took a while but the result's the thing. nt

[gopiscrap]

122. Hooray for LGBT rights from

Frankfurt, Germany we just found out while having dinner at the Hauptbahnhof

[Takket]

125. What a great day for America!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same-sex marriage is now in the constitution and it can't ever be taken back out!!!!

[tymorial]

127. Tears streaming from my eyes.

I don't care about the dissents. They don't matter to me. I will not focus on the negative of those opinions. Today is a brilliant day for my fellow LGBTQs. This smile will not go away for a while. Where are the tissues.

[47of74]

129. The reich isn't having the best week.

Your reich wing friends and family may need these;

[BrotherIvan]

133. Positively fantastic!!!!

Equality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[restorefreedom]

135. about freakin time

the next battleground will be the resteraunteurs and the cake bakers etc who will claim religious freedom so as not to service a gay wedding. but then it will move to housing etc. eventually someone will come forward and say their religion forbids them to interact with someone of a different race, or women, or whatever. within a year, two tops, the supremes will have to affirm civil rights and say that if you have a public business you have to serve all the public. or else get into a different line of work.

today, party! tomorrow, watch the flank.

[Fearless]

138. Just checking... the world hasn't ended yet...

Funny that.

[tymorial]

140. Okay I lied

I said that I didn't care about the dissents. I am reading a live blog on yahoo which is posting the various comments from politicians along with excerpts from the justices' opinions. I haven't had the chance to read them all but this is from that bloated windbag Scalia...

"Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans), or even a Protestant ofa ny denomination. The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting on today's social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning as judges, answering the legal question whether the American people had ever ratified a constitutional provision that was understood to proscribe the traditional definition of marriage. But of course the Justices in today's majority are not voting on that basis; they say they are not . And to allow the policy question of same sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principal even more fundamental than no taxation without representation; no social transformation without representation.

His entire notion that the justices must represent religious demographic is preposterous. Scalia believes that the constitution must be read as written with full understanding of the original intent of the founders . He believes therefore that the language must not reflect our current understanding as they relate to our modern culture but that of the culture during the period when the amendment was ratified. For someone so narrow in his views regarding the constitution, I wonder how he reconciles the fact that judicial review is inferred and not specifically stated. That issue aside, the individual religious beliefs of a justice is completely irrelevant given that the first amendment prohibits enacting legislation with religion as justification. The justices acting in concert to perform a judicial review are bound by the same 1st amendment mandate. They are to refrain from religious consideration when passing judgement.

Scalia's ramblings are schizophrenic and incoherent. I just do not understand what Ginsburg sees in him that we don't.

[TeeYiYi]

142. "It is so ordered." #LoveWins

It's a great day to be gay in America...

TYY

[bluesbassman]

143. Yes!

:thumbs up:

[Hekate]

145. Kickin' it!!!!

[rhett o rick]

146. How long until all male/female marriages crumble into dust? I need to know to make plans.

[Enthusiast]

148. The War on Christianity continues.....

I kid. [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

[DrBulldog]

150. And the dissents tell us what we already knew . . .

. . . that Thomas and Scalia are LUNATICS. How in hell did they ever graduate from law school?

[passiveporcupine]

153. Am I the only one who had tears in my eyes

After I found out about this today?

Jesus, this makes me so damned happy! It's about time.

So I first saw this on reddit, and they have a ton of threads on it already and I just can't stop crying. I guess I really didn't think this was going to pass.

This is a day to be marked on my calendar for celebrations.

[Cha]

154. So Happy for all my Country and most of all for my Gay Brothers and Sisters!

Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when a marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state.

mahalo brooklynite~

[craigmatic]

155. This is progress.

Now we can all equally have half our stuff taken in divorce.

[BeanMusical]

157. Yeah!

[lostnfound]

161. Now for the turtle hurdle!

just kidding. Yay for freedom and equality in America!

[cui bono]

162. So happy for all my LGBTQ friends!!!

[Simeon Salus]

163. It's going to be a good weekend in NYC

The village will be a crazy happy place tonight.

[sheshe2]

165. Kick and Hell yes Recommend.

[Calista241]

166. Congrats to the LGBT community! Well earned.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

167. Yeah!

[IronLionZion]

168. I hope there's a count of how many conservative marriages are ruined

Probably Tony Scalia's marriage might be over! Maybe Clarence Thomas's too!



Thanks Obama and Dems and the 5 justices

[hrmjustin]

169. I went out and celebrated in Manhattan tonight.