I'm glad that everyone can get married to whom they love now.
However,
I can't help but disagree with this decision. Don't get me wrong, I believe that everyone should have the right to marry as they please, but I can't help but fell this was unnecessary. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this going to happen on a state level anyway? I feel the supreme court didn't need to do this.
Like I said, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just rambling about something I know little of.
Yeah, but some states isn't enough. The moment you leave that state, the validity of your marriage is up in the air. No one should have to settle for being officially married in certain areas like a state-sized closet.
If two people commit to each other in such a binding fashion, it behooves the rest of us to at least give them the rights that come with their commitment, as we would give any heterosexual marriage.
Yeah, but some states isn't enough. The moment you leave that state, the validity of your marriage is up in the air. No one should have to settle for being officially married in certain areas like a state-sized closet.
Plus, the Fourteenth Amendment essentially prohibits leaving civil rights up to individual states. If something is considered a right in the United States, the Constitution requires that it be protected as a right everywhere in the United States. Marriage was established as a right in 1954 in Loving v Virginia.
It had happened in some states, but even in many of those states it is still being fought: Mississippi Goddam, for instance. Using the passive voice to say this ‘had happened’ ignores that marriage equality had to fought for and won in state after state. This is what the Supreme Court is for, settling constitutional law for the nation as a whole. If you’re for equality in any particular state, why would you be against it in the country?
If it was, it wouldn't have been for a while. Most of those states weren't legalizing by choice. They were legalizing by court order. And they were also fighting it tremendously. The remaining states, if they did have the ban struck down, it would be by court order, and they too would fight it with all their effort. Having a Supreme Court decision makes it (almost) final. Instead of fighting for the next few generation, they affirmed what all the other courts would hold up anyways, that it is a human right.
I'm glad that everyone can get married to whom they love now.
However,
I can't help but disagree with this decision. Don't get me wrong, I believe that everyone should have the right to marry as they please, but I can't help but fell this was unnecessary. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this going to happen on a state level anyway? I feel the supreme court didn't need to do this.
Like I said, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just rambling about something I know little of.
Yeah, but some states isn't enough. The moment you leave that state, the validity of your marriage is up in the air. No one should have to settle for being officially married in certain areas like a state-sized closet.
If two people commit to each other in such a binding fashion, it behooves the rest of us to at least give them the rights that come with their commitment, as we would give any heterosexual marriage.
Plus, the Fourteenth Amendment essentially prohibits leaving civil rights up to individual states. If something is considered a right in the United States, the Constitution requires that it be protected as a right everywhere in the United States. Marriage was established as a right in 1954 in Loving v Virginia.
It had happened in some states, but even in many of those states it is still being fought: Mississippi Goddam, for instance. Using the passive voice to say this ‘had happened’ ignores that marriage equality had to fought for and won in state after state. This is what the Supreme Court is for, settling constitutional law for the nation as a whole. If you’re for equality in any particular state, why would you be against it in the country?
If it was, it wouldn't have been for a while. Most of those states weren't legalizing by choice. They were legalizing by court order. And they were also fighting it tremendously. The remaining states, if they did have the ban struck down, it would be by court order, and they too would fight it with all their effort. Having a Supreme Court decision makes it (almost) final. Instead of fighting for the next few generation, they affirmed what all the other courts would hold up anyways, that it is a human right.