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Crystal Ball Time: SCOTUS and SSM

How will SCOTUS rule?


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Because it's crystal ball time on an anonymous message board and I get to choose whatever answer I want.

You can, but you were commenting on why no one else picked that one. It is because it doesn't make any sense for the SCOTUS to make such a ruling. They almost certainly wouldn't since it would later be challenged, pointing out that same sex couples were being unfairly penalized by some states who would make them refile for a marriage license in their state just for moving there or working their when opposite sex couples wouldn't have to do so. That would violate the 14th Amendment.
 
And it took 30 years from the time that homosexuals were officially no longer considered having a mental illness to get to marry the person they wanted to marry in just one state. Heck, it was really that long for them to no longer have to fear going to jail in any state just for their consensual relationships.

Plus, things change faster now, thanks to faster ways to communicate and get stuff out. When women got the right to vote, we didn't have internet. Hell, we didn't even have TV and barely had phones (didn't for much of the time the fight was going on). Of course it is going to take longer. That doesn't mean that we should make same sex couples wait 70 years just because circumstances of the past made the time when the fight for some rights is seen as starting til the rights were finally won so long.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


edit: Ooops, I accidentally hit the send button before I finished my response. More words coming......later....
 
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I'm going with the only answer that makes rightful and legal sense "States cannot ban SSM and have to recognize them from other states"
 
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