a portion of Justice Kennedy’s
appraisal and Majority opinion:
"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.
It is so ordered."
1453, Friday 26 6. 15
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