Alabama Public Television vs gay marriage
‘It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage,’ Justice Kennedy wrote when delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark civil rights case that legalized gay 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.’ Kennedy wrote those words in June 2015. Four years later, it feels like much of the country has moved on.
