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Hodges, U.S. () (/ ˈoʊbərɡəfɛl / OH-bər-gə-fel), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. Respondents’ argument that allowing same-sex couples to wed will harm marriage as an institution rests on a counterintuitive view of opposite-sex couples’ decisions about marriage and parenthood.

Hodges is a landmark case in which on June 26, , the Supreme Court of the United States held, in decision, that state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United. Jim Obergefell and others sued for recognition of their same-sex marriages, which were legal in the states where they were married but illegal in other states.

The denial of marriage impedes many legal rights and privileges, such as adoptions, parental rights, and property transfer. The Court has long held that marriage is a fundamental right. Same-sex marriage has been legal for 10 years, but with a Supreme Court dishing losses to LGBTQ causes and calls for a revisit of Obergefell v.

Hodges, some wonder how long that may last. In Friday's historic ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges , in a recent case, Department of State v. Hodges is a consolidation of six-lower court cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Instead, the Court stated that married same-sex couples "would pose no risk of harm to themselves or third parties".

The Court ordered briefing and oral argument on the following questions: 1. Sotomayor argued that the Court could have "resolved this case on narrow grounds under longstanding precedent. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

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By the year Obergefell was decided thirty-six states already issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples and more than 20 counties around the world had already legalized gay marriage, starting with the Netherlands in Justice Antonin Scalia also wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justice Thomas. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. Speed: 0. Writers Page.

The Constitution grants them that right. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. Glucksberg , in which the Court stated the Due Process Clause protects only rights and liberties that are "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition", Alito argued that "right" to same-sex marriage would not meet this definition.

More in The Constitution. Hodges , which granted all U. Her focus is reporting on politics.

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The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The majority held that state same-sex marriage bans violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Obergefell v. And he, like Thomas, concluded that the majority decision prevented states from acting on same-sex marriage on their own.

Addressing the Fourteenth Amendment violation, Scalia claimed that, because a same-sex marriage ban would not have been considered unconstitutional at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment's adoption, such bans are not unconstitutional today. In her dissenting opinion, Sotomayor cited the landmark case Obergefell v. Rachel joined Newsweek in October Ohio Case 2: originally Henry v.

Beshear filed their petition for a writ of certiorari with the Court on November According to the Michigan law adoption was allowed only for single people or married couples. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition.