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On Friday the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that same-sex marriage is a nationwide right, guaranteed by the Constitution.

The ruling says that homosexual couples are now allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer reserve the right only for heterosexual couples.

What are your thoughts on this historic vote?

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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LU
LU
8 years ago

So happy!

Hobo John
Hobo John
8 years ago

It is a somewhat disturbing trend to me that many fully believe it is the governments job to say who can and cannot be married. That we automatically look to the government to solve our social issues scares me. We have ceded to much of our own power to the government as problem solvers and healers of ills. I am hoping some one can tell me why this is a big deal.

Brad Thompson
Brad Thompson
8 years ago
Reply to  Hobo John

It is a big deal because civil marriage–a contractual arrangement created and defined by the state–entails more than a thousand legal rights and responsibilities the unmarried do not enjoy. The fact of the matter is, the state treats family units as different from individuals, and even apart from tradition it has good reasons to do so. The primary means of forming a voluntary family unit is marriage, and that path has been made available to a number of people to whom it had been heretofore denied.

Moreover, it’s a big deal because it’s a symbol. Union in marriage is, in our culture, the ultimate expression of romantic love. It is a cherished ideal. The recent ruling by SCOTUS is a very public affiirmation that the love shared by LGB individuals admits of that sort of ultimacy, that our relationships, like heterosexual ones, are defined not by our genitals and what we do with them, but by our souls and how they join in joyous, perichoretic unity. It is a symbolic affirmation of that which many in this country insist on denying: our humanity.

Tom Schmidt
Tom Schmidt
8 years ago
Reply to  Brad Thompson

Since there is no evidence that same sex marriage is a danger to anyone, let the individual decide. The state has no other say. All other considerations are equal.

Hobo John
Hobo John
8 years ago
Reply to  Brad Thompson

wow all that from the Government. Personally I would look elsewhere for affirmation

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