June 26, 2015 | Sex & Society

US Supreme Court says yes to gay marriage

On June 28th, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City in a routine assault on the gay community. The result: three days of riots and the beginning of the modern day gay rights movement.

Now, 46 years later, the Supreme Court of the United States has declared that gays have a constitutional right to get married! We've certainly come a long way!

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion, representing 5 of the 9 judges.

He continued:

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.

Making the win that much better is knowing how pissed Justice Antonin Scalia is right now. He wrote the dissent for the four Justices who disagreed with the ruling.