Supreme Court Rules Gay Couples Have Right to Marry

In a 5-4 decision announced Friday the US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples in every state be allowed to marry and states cannot enforce their bans on same-sex marriage.

Read the Court's decision here.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion, “The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them.” Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined Kennedy on the majority.

Cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, known as Obergefell v. Hodges, were used by the court to find that the marriage bans in those states unconstitutional.

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