The US Supreme Court today announced that they would review the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rulings in marriage equality cases from four states: Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio.
This means that the nation’s highest court will decide the question that lower courts have been answering for the last few years: Do loving same-sex couples enjoy a fundamental right to marry under the Constitution?
We believe they do, and federal judges in the cases we’ve coordinated in North Carolina and Mississippi agree with us. It’s clear that no valid legal arguments exist to uphold bans on same-sex marriage, and the right to marry should belong to loving couples no matter what state they live in.
As we work for LGBT equality across the South, we see the continued harms that families suffer because of discriminatory marriage laws. States where LGBT people can’t marry the person they love are subjecting their citizens to second-class status. Every day that couples have to wait for fairness is a day too long.
