Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage becomes permanent tomorrow

From tomorrow, the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage in the US becomes permanent – as the window to overturn it expires.


The highest court in the U.S. ruled last month in Obergefell vs Hodges that equal marriage is a constitutional right, and that all 50 states must both recognise and perform same-sex marriages.



Desperate anti-gay activists have called for the ruling to be thrown out and the case to be re-heard, because two liberal justices on the court had already performed gay weddings.


However, from tomorrow even that course of action will be closed to them – as the 25-day window in which a Supreme Court ruling can be challenged expires.

This means that the ruling is permanent – and there is almost nothing opponents can do to change it, short of radically amending the Constitution...



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