Six Years After Same-Sex Marriage, Now What?

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The highest-profile Supreme Court win for gay and lesbian rights, a decision written for history, stopped short of what advocates really wanted. Where does that leave the movement?

On June 26, 2015, six years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state laws that discriminated against gay and lesbian unions and made same-sex marriage the law of the land. Unlike other landmark civil-rights decisions, like the court’s 1954 order to desegregate schools, implementation ofwas straightforward and easy. The most any local clerk, county recorder or state health department had to do was to change a few words on an application for a marriage license.

celestial in its rhetoric, but very grounded in its legal scope. In many areas, conflicts over LGBTQ rights remain as unsettled as they were before the marriage case was decided—so much so that some gay-rights litigators are today as likely to rueThere’s an irony to where they have found themselves, as the narrowness of their campaign was, initially, a winning strategy.

The Supreme Court never had to deal with that question; in 2013, it handled the Proposition 8 appeal solely on procedural grounds. But a simultaneous ruling by the court that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional dramatically changed gay-rights litigators’ view of what was possible.

 

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This will never WIN but your all sexy as shit. Start with TV commercials

What else is left? Have marriage and get legal rights to all that heterosexual. WHY parades to show your sexual lives who honestly cares to day ? Never did and was married heterosexual for 40 years. So now you have what we had so live your lives . Do not need a parade?

it still be not marriage

We move on and live our lives. We won.

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