June 26, 2015      10:56 AM
Full text of Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage
"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."
Here
is the conclusion of the majority opinion of the United States Supreme 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.”
The
full document can
be found here.
|