Gay Marriage Decision 2015: Everyone Wants Justice Kennedy's Opinion To Be Read At Weddings

Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court released a ruling that legalized gay marriage across the country. The ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges held that all states must marry gay couples and that marriages conducted legally in other states must be universally recognized under the 14th Amendment. President Barack Obama and others hailed the decision with the slogan, "Love Wins."
In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy -- considered the swing vote in the 5-4 ruling -- penned a closing paragraph that is blowing up on Twitter.
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of 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. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed.
Many Twitter users were suggesting the justice's words should now have a place at LGBT weddings.
This is beautiful enough to be read at weddings. https://t.co/mK4uEpAZui
— Bree Mae (@TheBreeMae) June 26, 2015
Get ready to hear this read at a whole lotta weddings. https://t.co/QVVcErmmT7
— kateyrich (@kateyrich) June 26, 2015
Looking forward to excerpts of this SCOTUS decision being read at weddings for generations to come! :-) https://t.co/x4GYeb3dE9
— Kerry Hayes (@Kerry901) June 26, 2015
I imagine this might be read at a number of weddings in the near future. https://t.co/EwZMcwaJSk
— Brianne Pfannenstiel (@brianneDMR) June 26, 2015
This opinion is so beautifully written and unashamedly pro-marriage people literally might read from it at their weddings. #SCOTUSMarriage
— Brent Woodcox (@BrentWoodcox) June 26, 2015
I hope Justice Kennedy's closing paragraph is now read at all weddings like that whole "love is patient, love is kind" verse. #lovewins
— Emily S. Keyes (@esc_key) June 26, 2015
This isn't the first sign that the Supreme Court has been upping its writing game lately. Earlier this week, Justice Elena Kagan laced a decision on a patent dispute with Spider-Man references.
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