RBG

RBG out there like… https://t.co/8WGQlFrbAl

— BFF (@YrBFF) June 26, 2015

History

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. 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. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed.

— Justice Kennedy's Majority Opinion

The long road to same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage isn’t some overnight cause, some progressive novelty, especially not when it’s put in its proper context, as part of a struggle for gay rights that has been plenty long, patient and painful.

— Gay Marriage’s Moment, Frank Bruni @ New York Times

My soapbox: Defense of marriage was never just about marriage, it was a legal rationale for a broad spectrum of discrimination and opposition to same-sex relationships. Which is why it was passed in states like Indiana where a handful of employers were considering limited domestic-partnership benefits.