Redfish
Diamond Member
Brilliant ruling and conclusion by SCOTUS!Nonsense.The brief argued that supporting the same-sex marriage ban does not amount to discrimination, because the laws behind the ban apply equally to everyone. They were not enacted to disparage and injure, anyone. Nor were they enacted out of animosity against homosexuals. To the contrary, the laws were enacted with a desire to elevate the states legal recognition of marriage to a level that society has celebrated throughout history.
As the Supreme Court held in Romer, seeking to deny gay Americans access to a state's law classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else[...] A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.
equal treatment and the use of the word 'marriage' are not the same thing.
