Obama Administration Urges Nationwide End To Same-Sex Marriage Bans

[JackBeck]

Source: BuzzFeed

“There is no adequate justification for such a discriminatory and injurious exercise of state power,” the Obama administration urges. More than 200 congressional Democrats also weigh in to support marriage equality.

posted on March 6, 2015, at 5:22 p.m.
Chris Geidner
BuzzFeed News Reporter

WASHINGTON — The United States government on Friday urged the Supreme Court to strike down bans on same-sex couples’ marriages across the country, concluding, “There is no adequate justification for such a discriminatory and injurious exercise of state power.”
Specifically, the Justice Department urges:

“The marriage bans challenged in these cases impermissibly exclude lesbian and gay couples from the rights, responsibilities, and status of civil marriage. These facially discriminatory laws impose concrete harms on same-sex couples and send the inescapable message that same-sex couples and their children are second-class families, unworthy of the recognition and benefits that opposite-sex couples take for granted. The bans cannot be reconciled with the fundamental constitutional guarantee of ‘equal protection of the laws.’”

In addition to the Obama administration’s brief, more than 200 congressional Democrats, led by each chamber’s Democratic leader, filed an amici curiae brief supporting a marriage equality ruling from the court.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/obama-administration-urges-nationwide-end-to-same-sex-marria#.uuoomn1Zp

[Hugabear]

1. I wish Obama would urge an end to drinking mercury, or jumping off high cliffs

The way the GOP is nowadays, this would solve many of our problems.

[RKP5637]

2. You know, some days, I really wonder if the GOP is getting their drinking water from the

same source as the rest of us.

[JackBeck]

5. Obama announces that inhaling oxygen is important to survival.

Problem solved.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

3. Not one American Taliban aka TeaParTY on board ?

Not one?


Quiz: which group of people is never on the right side of any issue, ever?

[sheshe2]

4. “There is no adequate justification for such a discriminatory and injurious exercise of state power.

Thank you President Obama. It's past time we get this done.

[Cha]

6. Thank you, President Obama! mahalo Jack

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Thank you, Mr. President...

for evolving on the matter of marriage equality, and continuing to stand by that.