{"id":28229,"date":"2015-06-26T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=28229"},"modified":"2015-06-28T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:06:40","slug":"us-supreme-court-does-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/us-supreme-court-does-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court Does the Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Liberty-and-Justice-HT-Chris-Clarke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-28237 alignnone alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Liberty-and-Justice-HT-Chris-Clarke-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty and Justice, HT Chris Clarke\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Liberty-and-Justice-HT-Chris-Clarke-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Liberty-and-Justice-HT-Chris-Clarke.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Same sex marriage is a constitutional right for all USAians, regardless of the homophobic, religiously-motivated bigotry in 14 state legislatures.<\/p>\n<p><del>Chief<\/del> Justice Kennedy writing the 5-4 decision:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of a person,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment, couples of the same sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty.<\/p>\n<p>.. \u00a0The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; [They] ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.\u00a0&lt;\/blockquote&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>And Antonin Scalia displays his usual regressive Catholic assholishness: &lt;blockquote&gt;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suck it, Popey-boy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HT: Chris Clarke, image, and Ophelia Benson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Should have been Justice Kennedy, not Chief justice Kennedy. \u00a0Thanks for the reminder, Kantian Naturalist :).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Same sex marriage is a constitutional right for all USAians, regardless of the homophobic, religiously-motivated bigotry in 14 state legislatures. Chief Justice Kennedy writing the 5-4 decision:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}