{"id":15505,"date":"2015-06-26T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15505"},"modified":"2015-06-26T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T17:25:20","slug":"personal-update6262015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/personal-update6262015\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update–6\/26\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m feeling quite horrid, so except for one Short Take, I\u2019m staying down.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 6:19 (average 7:41). To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Take<\/strong>: <\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in the 5 to 4 decision. He was joined by the court\u2019s four more liberal justices.<\/p>\n

The decision, the culmination of decades of litigation and activism, came against the backdrop of fast-moving changes in public opinion, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Justice Kennedy said gay and lesbian couples had a fundamental right to marry.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage,\u201d Justice Kennedy said of the couples challenging state bans on same-sex marriage. \u201cTheir 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\u2019s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in a dissent joined by Justice Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, said the Constitution had nothing to say on the subject.<\/p>\n

Congrats and kudos to the LGBT community.  Needless to say, I had to pass this on. The three key rulings indicate that the Injustices of SCROTUS, Republican Constitutional VD, recognize that this is an election campaign year in which their party was just responsible for the political assassination of black church leaders and the police murder of several black men and children. Can you imagine the public reaction, had they gutted ObamaCare, Fair Housing, and Marriage rights? I trust they made the correct decisions only to keep voters from flocking to the polls in protest in 2016. Were this not an election year, they would have decided differently.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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