A nice Valentine’s Day gift from (and to) our fellow commonwealth down south:
“We made a commitment to each other in our love and lives, and now had the legal commitment, called marriage, to match. Isn’t that what marriage is? … I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry. Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the ‘wrong kind of person’ for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. … I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.”
— Mildred Loving (of Loving v. Virginia fame), “Loving for All”, as quoted by Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen in Bostic v. Rainey, which overturned Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage yesterday.
mike_cote says
Scalia’s discent on the DOMA case last year was referenced in both the cases for Virginia and Kentucky. I hope he is proud of that distinction as the country’s biggest failure at “how to defend a law based on constitutional issues”.
Christopher says
Didn’t he say in his Lawrence v. Texas dissent something to the effect of if we legalize gay sex the next thing you know we’ll have to let them marry?
mike_cote says
this is what I could find of the Scalia dissent in Lawrence v. Texas:
Emphasis added by me.
mike_cote says
what is wrong with them, they cannot even talk about sex without bringing up bestiality in a court document no less.
kbusch says
Fornication includes what used to be called “pre-marital sex”. The idea of outlawing fornication and masturbation should only be entertained now by such organizations as the Society for Creative Anachronism.