I’ve seen a few videos of some very upset people. The not so nice part of me just can’t find any empathy here.
Hey, if you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get gay married. Problem solved.
Yay!! Our office stopped work so we can all watch the news. Very exciting.
SO, SO happy!!! Great news, great day, great week!!
Democracy is threatened by intolerance, by poor public discourse, by disinterested voters. Children grow up best in stable homes full of love and commitment and trust. Scalia and Santorum should quit their day jobs and just become internet trolls (although I concede that Santorum’s views, while not my own, are sincerely held )
onward and upward!
Alito’s dissent was way, way worse than Scalia’s.
Very happy news and so long overdue! And a perfect week for this decision.
It’s about time, U.S.A. love, Canada. 
A great week indeed, @VeryHappy. Your comment brought me towards realization of all the wonderful things that had this week. These aren’t tears in my eyes…
Cried today with a member of my church. When the Feds recognized marriage we made plans for his partner and he and I to travel to Delaware so they could marry. Charley died before we could get the license. 65 years together. Rejoicing today but tears for what might have been.
There’s some talk about a really startling paragraph from Thomas’ dissent. I wonder if any lawyers can comment in layman’s terms on his legal basis for this part of his dissent. Is he just being particularly nuanced and saying something like protection of “dignity” is not a constitutional right? Or is this just as nutty as it sounds, particularly coming from an African American judge?
"The corollary of that principle is that human dignity cannot be taken away by the government. Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them,” Thomas wrote. “And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.”
My 12-year-old ran herself out of rainbow duct tape this morning in celebration.
I am not a lawyer but the paragraph that @anomander posts is appalling to me. I don’t think you need a JD to understand it. Being forced to be a slave does not take away your dignity??? Being put in a camp and rights taken away does not mean treating you as something "less"than others?
Isn’t this a political thread?
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.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the decision legalizing same-
sex marriage in the U.S.
(Can I like my own post? :)>-)
Excellent news!!! And I agree with @nottelling Justice Alito’s dissent was way worse than Justice Scalia’s expected over the top rant…
great news!! Attitudes have evolved quickly (finally!) on this over the past few years - even here at CC. When NY legalized same sex marriage a few years back, threads about it were deleted.
What a great day!
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Of course it is. But CC-at-large is in favor so that aspect is not an issue.
“Excellent news!!! And I agree with @nottelling Justice Alito’s dissent was way worse than Justice Scalia’s expected over the top rant…”
I haven’t seen any quotes from Alito, but Scalia’s is an instant classic. Almost as awesome as “jiggery pokery.”
“Really?”
“Huh?”
“Ask the nearest hippie.”
In relation to what Thomas wrote, there are several definitions of dignity. One is: “the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.” Another is: “a sense of pride in oneself; self-respect.” For what it’s worth, I think Thomas is referring to the latter meaning, i.e., that no outside person or entity can take that away.
He conveniently ignores the first definition, which is of course the connotation for most people.
I was just sitting in McDonald’s and an elderly man sat at table by me and looked at the TV screen and started weeping. He fell in love 50 years ago but they parted for fear of being arrested. Just told me he never stopped thinking about him and has been alone all these years.