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‘Justice arrives like a thunderbolt’ Supreme Court decision strikes down bans on same-sex marriage nationwide
By Mark Sherman Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a crowning victory to the gay rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden. “No longer may this liberty be denied,” said Justice Anthony Kennedy. The vote was narrow — 5-4 — but Kennedy’s majority opinion was clear and firm: “The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise Ruling brings the fundaup new mental right questions, A2 to marry.” The ruling will put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them, and provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation’s social norms in recent years. As recently as October, just over one-third of the states permitted gay marriages. Kennedy’s reading of the ruling elicited tears in the courtroom, euphoria outside and the immediate issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in at least eight states. In Dallas, Kenneth Denson said he and Gabriel Mendez had been legally married in 2013 in California but “we’re Texans; we want to get married in Texas.” In praise of the decision, President Barack Obama called it “justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.” Four of the court’s justices weren’t cheering. The dissenters accused their colleagues of usurping power that belongs to the states and to voters, and short-circuiting a national debate about same-sex marriage.
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Ann Sorrell, 78 (left), and Marge Eide, 77, a couple for 43 years, embrace after exchanging vows in Ann Arbor, Michigan, following Friday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down bans on same-sex marriage.
Court’s ruling acclaimed, condemned By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
Acclamation and condemnation greeted Friday’s historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Those who pushed successfully to make it the law in Washington in 2012 called it a momentous day and reveled in this state’s role
See RULING, back page, this section
in leading the way. “It is the beginning of understanding that whomever you love is whomever you love and it doesn’t matter what state you live in,” said Grethe Cammermeyer, of Whidbey Island, the retired Army colonel who became a national figure in the fight to abolish the federal law barring gays and lesbians from
serving openly in the military. Cammermeyer, who married her partner three years ago, said she hung up the American flag after the decision came out. “We are united now as one nation,” she said. “There really is freedom and justice for all.” But those on the losing end of the 2012 election said the ruling undermined democracy, and
they insisted the fight will continue in different venues. “It’s a significant setback for Americans who believe in the rule of law and democratic process,” said Joseph Backholm, executive director of Lynnwood-based Family Policy See REACTION, back page, this section
WORDS, DECISIONS WILL REVERBERATE THROUGH HISTORY Chief Justice John Roberts
President Barack Obama
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Excerpts from statement
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. ...
[O]ur Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. …Today, however, the Court takes the extraordinary step of ordering every State to license and recognize same-sex marriage. Many people will rejoice at this decision, and I begrudge none their celebration. But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening. Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens — through the democratic process — to adopt their view. That ends today. ... Stealing this issue from the people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a dramatic social change that much more difficult to accept.
... Progress on this journey often comes in small increments, sometimes two steps forward, one step back, propelled by the persistent effort of dedicated citizens. And then sometimes, there are days like this when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt. ... Today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple, often painfully, real change is possible. Shifts in hearts and minds is possible. And those who have come so far on their journey to equality have a responsibility to reach back and help others join them. Because for all our differences, we are one people, stronger together than we could ever be alone. That’s always been our story. ...
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