Wall Street Journal
3 minutes ago
Written byJess Bravin
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to lawfully married same-sex couples.
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No pun intended:
ReplyDeleteGoing down,
Next level The Gay Lobby (Vatican).
As in the late Reader's Digest series... Humor (laughter) is the best Medicine.. sometimes.
It's a downward spiral from here on.
Thank God for "The Faith once delivered unto the Saints".
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.
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So, that leaves Breyer, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan, who handed down the majority opinion...
DEMOGRAPHICS:
All three Jews, and two Roman Catholics voted in favor...
All the women on the court (3) voted for it...
The last two justices to be named to the court, the last to be named by Obama, the two single females voted for the majority opinion...