Same-sex Marriage: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

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Courts in Boston and San Francisco have ruled against various restrictions on same-sex marriage, but each court has stayed its decision until the U.S. Supreme Court can review it.

The quote "justice delayed is justice denied" was coined by a Briton in the 19th century, but he must have had a crystal ball that focused directly on the 21st-century American justice system.

We delay justice all the time, and in doing so, deny it for millions.

In California, something like 1 million people have died in the past four years, since the passage of Proposition 8. Some of them died still waiting for the courts to act definitively on the initiative, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. No one should have to die waiting for six men and three women in black robes to validate their love.

Read the full story at The Provocation

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