SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decisions Should be Out Today

[Coito ergo sum]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130626/DA759AJ83.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is meeting to deliver opinions in two cases that could dramatically alter the rights of gay people across the United States.
The justices are expected to decide their first-ever cases about gay marriage Wednesday in their last session before the court's summer break.
The issues before the court are California's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies legally married gay Americans a range of tax, health and pension benefits otherwise available to married couples.
The broadest possible ruling would give gay Americans the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. But several narrower paths also are available, including technical legal outcomes in which the court could end up saying very little about same-sex marriage.

[Rum]

Is it legal yet for a homosexualist man to marry a lesbianised woman?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hurricane to hit Samoa in 5, 4, 3,...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Is it legal yet for a homosexualist man to marry a lesbianised woman?

Only if they're born that way.

Married, that is.

[Bella Fortuna]

[Tyrannical]

Courts should stick to the original intention of those that passed the law.

Get something passed by two-thirds majority of both Houses AND have three quarters of States ratify it, or just convince a simple majority of nine judges

[Bella Fortuna]

And SCOTUS delivers!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And SCOTUS delivers!

[Bella Fortuna]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12 ... 7_g2bh.pdf

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Short version, please.

[Coito ergo sum]

DOMA unconstitutional.

The Court left in place the trial court decision in California striking down Proposition 8.

[Tero]

Does it leave any part of DOMA?

[Svartalf]

So, one blow struck for full equality of all citizens before the law?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So, one blow struck for full equality of all citizens before the law?

To some extent, yes.

[Coito ergo sum]

Some of our Yerpeein brethren, like Mr. Jonno et al might see the DOMA decision and the Prop 8 decision as anathema to democracy. The people voted for DOMA through their elected representatives and directly voted for Prop 8 -- democracy in action.

Democracy is always good, ain't it?

Or, could it be that constitutional limitations are actually good for the individual and individual rights and liberties, because they serve as a check against the majority who may, from time to time, seek to infringe on the individual liberties of disfavored groups.....?

Hmmm.....