Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Same Sex Marriage is a Right

Happy news came Friday morning when the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees nationwide right to same-sex marriage. Per the Los Angeles Times:

The 5-4 opinion, written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, will stand as a landmark in civil rights law and culminates a two-decade struggle for gays and lesbians to win marriage equality under the Constitution.
“The right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of a person,” Kennedy said, and “under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment, couples of the same sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty.”

“The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry,” Kennedy said.

“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family,” Kennedy wrote. “In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.”

Same sex couples “ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”

This incredible victory comes almost 46 years to the day after the Stonewall Inn riots launched the gay rights movement.