SCOTUS rules in favor of gay (equal) rights in adoption case

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of an Alabama woman who sought legal custody after splitting up with her same-sex partner.

The case required the court to interpret the Constitution's dictate that every state must give "full faith and credit" to legal decisions reached in other states.

Two women, referred to in court documents only by their initials, were in a committed relationship in Alabama for nearly 17 years. One of them, E.L., gave birth to three children. The other, V.L., wanted to adopt them, so on the advice of a lawyer she sought and was granted full parental rights from a court in Georgia, where the laws were considered more favorable to her situation.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-rules-gay-adoption-case-n533256

[ruggerson]

1. Too bad

we will be missing Scalia's incomprehensibly angry, theocratic tirade, masked as a dissent.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. There was no opinion...

Is that considered a per curiam decision?

[Bluenorthwest]

3. And yet again those who opposed equality, such as Hillary Clinton, are shown to have been on the

wrong side of history, the law and of that which is right. I am so happy that in 2008 we elected Barack Obama.

[lamp_shade]

4. Link here...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-rules-gay-adoption-case-n533256