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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums** Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Americans Are Ready for Gay Marriage **
(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 number of gay-marriage states has soared in recent years, largely because of court rulings. Only 12 states permitted such unions in June 2013, when the Supreme Court threw out part of a law that denied federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. The majoritys reasoning in that case prompted lower courts to strike down bans on gay marriage.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-12/ginsburg-says-u-s-ready-to-accept-ruling-approving-gay-marriage-i61z6gq2
greatauntoftriplets
(175,751 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)If we only had more just liker her.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,751 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)Now we meed one as Commander-In-Chief! Whoever the Democrats pick.
William769
(55,148 posts)Ruth Bader Ginsburg
greatauntoftriplets
(175,751 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Americans need to realize that if we are the leaders of the Free World, we need to prove it. What worries me the most are these scary republican fundamentalists and what they might do. It seems they would rather blow up the world, than change with the rest of us.
William769
(55,148 posts)We just have to make sure to keep them in check.
And thanks for your support through the years.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It is very inspiring! I just worry about the GOP since they only seem a few degrees away from wanting us to live in a hellhole like Putin's Russia. Your posts always keep my hoping for a better future William. With your passion, you should have been a politician!
Never to late bro.
William769
(55,148 posts)And you are right, you never know.