Full Coverage: Supreme Court rules same-sex marriage is constitutional
In a landmark civil rights decision, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage that can’t be denied by state law.
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The nation had been expecting the Supreme Court to issue its ruling on same-sex marriage and the reaction was swift on Friday.
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The landmark ruling by the U.S.
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Bleu Copas, a gay Army veteran, watched in dismay nine years ago as his state voted overwhelmingly in favor of a ban on same-sex marriage.
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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that states cannot ban same-sex marriage.
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The legal world may have become inured to wildly rhetorical opinions by Justice Antonin Scalia, but his dissent in the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision Friday reaches new heights for its expression of utter contempt for the majority of his colleagues.
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Every year around Valentine’s Day, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson went to the Beverly Hills courthouse and asked to be married.
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The Supreme Court’s historic ruling Friday granting gays and lesbians an equal right to marry nationwide puts an exclamation point on a profound shift in law and public attitudes, and creates the most significant and controversial new constitutional liberty in more than a generation.
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The news spread across California through a flurry of tweets, texts, likes, links and media alerts: Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land.
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Even as a lesbian in a conservative Southern state, Katrina Martir managed to thrive in central Kentucky.
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Celebrity reactions to the Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples have the right to marry nationwide.
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On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed, clearing the way for gay marriage nationwide.
