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Iwillnevergiveup

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Fri Jun 26, 2015, 03:39 PM Jun 2015

Justice Kennedy - YES!


"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment in themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

-Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the Court's Majority
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Justice Kennedy - YES! (Original Post) Iwillnevergiveup Jun 2015 OP
it's not too often a Supreme Court justice makes me cry but.... Takket Jun 2015 #1
Fitting to lend such proper dignity to this historical decision. misterhighwasted Jun 2015 #2
I look forward to reading this opinion Gothmog Jun 2015 #3
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