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(Bloomberg) -- Americans are prepared to accept a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, pointing to what she described as a sweeping change in attitudes toward gays.
In an interview Wednesday in the courts oak-paneled east conference room, Ginsburg also said President Barack Obamas health-care law, which is under attack in a case before the Supreme Court next month, will be a central part of his legacy.
The 81-year-old justice discussed the publics increasing acceptance of gays against the backdrop of resistance by Alabama officials to a federal court order that took effect Monday and made it the 37th gay-marriage state. With the high court set to rule on the issue by June, she said it would not take a large adjustment for Americans should the justices say that gay marriage is a constitutional right.
The change in peoples attitudes on that issue has been enormous, Ginsburg said. In recent years, people have said, This is the way I am. And others looked around, and we discovered its our next-door neighbor -- were very fond of them. Or its our childs best friend, or even our child. I think that as more and more people came out and said that this is who I am, the rest of us recognized that they are one of us.
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