During Tuesday’s marriage equality arguments in the Supreme Court,
several of the Court’s conservative members suggested that same-sex
couples should not be given equal marriage rights because these couples have not enjoyed those rights for most of the past.
As Justice Antonin Scalia summed up this argument, “for millennia, not a
single society” supported marriage equality, and that somehow exempted
same-sex couples from the Constitution’s promise of equal protection of
the law.
Not long after her conservative colleagues raised this argument, however, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained exactly why marriage was long understood to be incompatible with homosexuality in just five sentences: READ MORE
Not long after her conservative colleagues raised this argument, however, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained exactly why marriage was long understood to be incompatible with homosexuality in just five sentences: READ MORE
No comments:
Post a Comment