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I find it funny that this case was about superseding states rights on marriage yet she invokes states rights "a host of complicated questions that states, which have jurisdiction over marriage"...[/quote]
I don't think the decision removed the regulation of marriage from the states.  It merely subjected them to the restriction that, in their regulations, they treat every individual the same regardless of gender.  States regulate the licensing of drivers, but they cannot, for example, say that licenses for trucks shall be limited to men, and pink cars may only be driven by women, because everyone knows that truck-drivers are traditionally male and pink is a traditionally feminine color.[/quote]

What the SCOTUS did through this precedent was to call into question whether states have that right anymore and a reasonable conclusion is no, they do not.

I also found Justice Kennedy's statement less than amusing as the premise is obsolete...

"“Without the recognition, stability and predictability marriage offers,” he wrote, “their children suffer the stigma of knowing their families are somehow lesser. They also suffer the significant material costs of being raised by unmarried parents, relegated through no fault of their own to a more difficult and uncertain family life. The marriage laws at issue here thus harm and humiliate the children of same-sex couples.”

Approve same sex marriage...but [b]do you have any idea how many couples in this nation aren't married and have children in the home? [/b]It's a growing demographic btw and last I saw 22% of births had two in the home but not married. What he wrote was right out of the 50's.[/quote]

I find it disturbing that people who can't commit to each other think they can commit to a child.[/quote]

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