Obergefell v. Hodges

The Supreme Court has again made the correct decision by affirming the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry.  This is another deserved blow to conservatives who rally against equal rights, dignity, and respect for all Americans.  Their politics of divisiveness, inequality, and fear is fading.  Love is at the heart of religious freedom; the "religious freedom" of conservatives is really discrimination.  Gay rights is the civil rights of my generation.  Today this nation took another step towards progress, and we are a better country for it.

As Justice Kennedy wrote in his opinion for the court,

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. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of 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. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.