After a long run in the fight for equality in the eyes of the law, finally finally! they get their freedom.
Today is a memorable day for the citizens of America and the world at large. It is a day that both the people who don't support gay rights and those who do will never forget.
Today has been imprinted in the sands of time as the day the LGBT (Lesbians Gay Bisexual and Transexual) community gained their independence, the day that the Supreme court legalized same sex marriage.
The decision, the culmination of decades of litigation and activism, came against the backdrop of fast-moving changes in public opinion, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve of same-sex marriage.
Justice Kennedy said gay and lesbian couples had a fundamental right to marry.
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family,” he wrote. “In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.”
“It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage,” Justice Kennedy said of the couples challenging state bans on same-sex marriage. “Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for 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.”
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