{"id":51618,"date":"2015-06-26T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/scotus-upholds-marriage-equality.html"},"modified":"2015-06-26T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:05:39","slug":"scotus-upholds-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/scotus-upholds-marriage-equality.html","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS upholds marriage equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo. And congratulations to all of my gay fellow citizens who have longed for this day. <\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves,&quot; Kennedy said. &quot;Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization&#39;s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1RCQk6v'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/DZntpkcJldUpEiHebL_IolJxLfuFp5cL024ODeQGr552ySfvjcYg-oHyDcbHfoiMdMfByxlOQieeks_3u_upCG4nh2Q_-FbbNZOSec8otVsWS18fes2Wq6Xfv4onyDMkfzhR1dyv1sNfvnWyan81dQgGXjl55iXgUxVdviuD7xXA1A1Jsw0Kwdt3kpqkFdejGS_uvu9Zxw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1RCQk6v'>Landmark: Supreme Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage Legal Nationwide<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn a landmark decision, the Supreme Court makes marriage for same-sex couples legal nationwide. NBC&#8217;s Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Pete Williams and Chuck Todd report.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PejGFyys5aF'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo. And congratulations to all of my gay fellow citizens who have longed for this day. &quot;It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves,&quot; Kennedy said. &quot;Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/scotus-upholds-marriage-equality.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SCOTUS upholds marriage equality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23330,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/to-respect-the-dignity-of-every-human-being.html","url_meta":{"origin":51618,"position":0},"title":"&quot;To respect the dignity of every human being&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-11 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Good for them. 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