SCOTUS DECLARES DOMA UNCONSTITUTIONAL, PROP 8 LAWSUIT OPPOSING GAY MARRIAGE W/OUT STANDING

[elrhiarhodan]

I'm kind of shaking here...I really thought this day would never happen. After the first decision came down, I was really prepared for a split call.

1 - DOMA - the reviled Defense of Marriage Act that denies legally married same-sex couples the right to receive Federal employment benefits, has been struck down:

"DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages. By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment." — JUSTICE ANTHONY M. KENNEDY

2 - The lawsuit brought by the opponants of same-sex marriage to enforce Proposition 8 as been found to be without standing. California can resume its legal obligation to perform same-sex marriages.

In the California case, the court ruled that opponents of same-sex marriage did not have standing to appeal a a lower-court ruling that overturned California’s ban. The Supreme Court’s ruling appears to remove legal obstacles to same-sex couples marrying in the state, but the court did not issue a broad ruling likely to affect other states.

Comments

[teaboyfan.livejournal.com]

This has been a great day for two reasons: the SCOTUS decisions and the failure of the Texas abortion law. People who oppose abortion have every right to their opinion, and the right to make decisions based on it, but they don't have the right to make other people abide by it. You choose for yourself; you don't choose for me.

[winterstar95.livejournal.com]

:) YES!