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SCOTUS Rules for Homosexual Marriage
Submitted by HPI on Sat, 06/27/2015 - 08:18
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Hawaii Political Info introduction: The three Jewish Associate Justices (Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) and one considered to be Jewish by some (Sonia Sotomayor), predictably voted en bloc for same-sex marriage on Friday. All that was needed was one non-Jewish vote, provided by Catholic Arthur Kennedy. While Jews reputedly make up 2 percent of the population, they make up 33 percent or 44 percent of the U.S. Supreme Court, depending on whether or not Sotomayor is counted.
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was aggrieved over this flagrant flouting of the U.S. Constitution to meet an agenda and wrote a scathing dissenting opinion, which can be read here from pages 69-77.
The same five Associate Justices voted together to save Obamacare on Thursday, with Chief Justice John Roberts, another Catholic, voting with them.
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The New York Times
By Adam Liptak
June 26, 2015
WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.
“No longer may this liberty be denied,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in the historic decision. “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 once they were.”
Marriage is a “keystone of our social order,” Justice Kennedy said, adding that the plaintiffs in the case were seeking “equal dignity in the eyes of the law.”
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