Notice the title is marriage equality not same-sex marriage. MARRIAGE
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My husband and I were at the Twin Cities Pride Festival today, and I came home and took a nap this afternoon. Just getting up.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Minnesota for 2 years, but oh what a day. The energy was wonderful there. We could tell the crowd was still buzzing after the SCOTUS ruling on marriage.
And there were folks there from every ethnicity, age, gender, religion, and educational background. The parade was a sight to behold. It screamed FREEDOM!
A wonderful way to end my weekend!
What a fantastic day for you, Ametia!
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“Balloons spell out the word “love” over the Supreme Court in Washington today.”
(AP photo by Jacquelyn Martin)
WHELP!
Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling
Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business.
“My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have no plans to put Pike County back into the marriage business,” Allen wrote in a statement. “The policy of my office regarding marriage is no different today than it was yesterday.”
Geneva County Probate Judge Fred Hamic also said he intends to permanently close the marriage license bureau in his office, if his attorneys don’t object.
Both judges cited Alabama Code Section 30-1-9: “Marriage licenses may be issued by the judges of probate of the several counties.”
The law says “may” instead of “shall”, Hamic said, which makes a big difference. He said the law permits probate judges to opt of of isuing marriage licenses.
“This decision is not based on me being a homophobic, people can do whatever they want in private,” Hamic said. “It is based strictly on my Christian beliefs.”
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/alabama_probate_office_closes.html
They will soon learn that they can’t take the marbles and leave.
Marriage EQUALITY LEGAL IN ALL 50 STATES!
Don’t like it, CLUTCH THE PEARLS.
I wonder if the LGBT community know how much has really gone into this day coming to fruition. They must NEVER forget that the fight for CIVIL RIGHTS is a FIGHT for ALL citizens’ rights!
Justice Clarence Thomas was one of the 4 dissenting judges
NEGRO, YOU GOT A VERY SHORT MEMORY
This is a good week for AMERICA in DOING THE RIGHT THINGS to keep up moving FORWARD.
“Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. He was joined in the ruling by the court’s liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
All four of the court’s most conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented and each wrote a separate opinion, saying the court had usurped a power that belongs to the people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gay-marriage-and-other-major-rulings-at-the-supreme-court/2015/06/25/ef75a120-1b6d-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1
“Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. He was joined in the ruling by the court’s liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
All four of the court’s most conservative members — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented and each wrote a separate opinion, saying the court had usurped a power that belongs to the people.