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Great news. Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election. There's been so much time wasted on this issue when, at the end of the day, any 2 consenting adults should have all of the same rights as any other 2 consenting adults (barring felony conviction, poor mental health eval, etc).

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I agree, I'm tired of hearing about this topic and the time wasted on it.

Although, I'm waiting for the 3 consenting adults lawsuit, that will be interesting.

EDIT: since the world is full of reactionaries that love to take things out of context; my public disclaimer on this is that I have no issue with this ruling.

This will start shortly if it hasn't already.

Though sometimes it can be entertaining. In the UK the debate included one lord embarrassing himself by "warning" that gay marriage might lead to a lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch through artificial insemination, as well as musing about how it could allow said lord to marry his son to escape inheritance tax [1]

I'm already looking forward to reading some of the tripe that will be written about this SCOTUS decision...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/21/tebbit-gay-ma...

I'm failing to understand how a lesbian queen and a queen giving birth through artificial insemination is even related. That's just weird. Was the guy suggesting if a queen married to a man, say with sperm issues, who chose to use artificial insemination would somehow produce a child that wouldn't be considered royalty? Even despite being born of the queen? What an idiotic comparison.

Although, I like the father/son marriage thing. That's an interesting thought exercise concerning modern laws. Kind of silly, but interesting nonetheless.

He was just trying to come up with the most offensive sounding (to his conservative constituency) examples to shock.

The father/son marriage thing of course could not happen for the same reason we don't have father/daughter marriages today: the laws have restrictions on close relatives marrying.

Kind of late on this, but as recent events have shown, such laws can be changed.

> Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election.

I wish this was true. But I think the decision will increase the discussion of marriage equality in the next election. Just look at the political impact abortion had after the supreme court decided Roe v. Wade. Abortion was used to galvanize conservative votes against liberals and SCOTUS.

>Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election.

Has this been an issue presidential elections? I don't remember it being discussed at all.

Felony convictions and mental health evals have no bearing on marriages currently

They do have a bearing on other rights though. I issued a blanket statement and wanted to make sure to list that there were exceptions.

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