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Dallas County's 13 district judges and five family court judges are waiving the usual 72-hour waiting period between receiving a marriage license and performing the ceremony. They have reserved extra space within the courthouse to accommodate the large crowds they expect., and have extended hours.
(For Texas, this is unbelievably awesome!)
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YAY!!!!! Soooooooo happy about this news!!!!
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Yay! This is great news.
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Great news!
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@MrsLonghorn: I'm biased as a former resident, but I've long thought of Dallas (well, all the major cities in Texas) as bright shining stars in sea of the social backwardness that can sometimes be Texas. Go Dallas!
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This is awesome!
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I seriously just jumped up and did a fist bump at my desk....and it might be pregnancy hormones but I'm about to cry. My mom is gay, and my best friend is gay and is planning a wedding for this fall (I'm giving her away). This is such great, wonderful, amazing news!
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@lawbee11: whoa!!! I will be interested to read the ruling! I'm surprised that Roberts dissented.
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Yay, yay, yay!
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Hooray!!!
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@lovehoneybee: Dude, pregnancy hormones totally have me crying!
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Awesome!!!!
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I got chills and started crying when NBC news announced on TV. Wow. This is amazing and monumental.
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I haven't read the whole thing yet, but there is a piece on page 27 about religious liberties, for those interested.
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Yay! I am so happy SCOTUS went this way.
@Anagram: I second this.
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@LovelyPlum: From Scalia's dissent: "If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie." YIKES!
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@Anagram: Totally.
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This is awesome news, especially for my sister who is trying to divorce her (coo-coo as coco puffs/abusive) wife. I'm so excited for her and the other couples that want to get married AND divorced!
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@lawbee11: whoa-kay...um. To be fair, I at least could see the rationale behind his argument yesterday. I want to read his dissent, but I'm not sure I can come up with a reason why he would write that. Holy moly.
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@MrsLonghorn: Awesome! I hope they do the same in Houston
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@lawbee11: I just read Roberts' dissent. There's a lot to think on in there, even as the decision is appropriately heralded as landmark. I think he's right-this isn't the last time this issue will be before the Court.
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@lawbee11: Scalia can suck it. Please do hide your head in a bag, sir. And fortune cookies are amazing.
Or something more mature...
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Awesome news USA!!
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Woot woot!
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@lawbee11: Ummmmm, says the man who has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to using descriptions like “pure applesauce” and “interpretive jiggery-pokery” in his official dissents.
All I can think of is that amazing Jennifer Lawrence sarcastic “ok” & thumbs up gif: http://gifrific.com/jennifer-lawrence-sarcastic-ok-thumbs-up/
And YEAH to the court being so clear on this issue/ruling - I wasn't sure they would be.
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@yoursilverlining: Right??
Gotta give Kennedy props for his closing paragraph
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Woohoo! So happy to hear this great news!
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YAY!!!!
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@lawbee11: wow. that totally made me tear up.
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Now Angie and Brad can get married!
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Just saw this. Amazing news!!!
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@lawbee11: that is the best and what I shared on my feed today. I don't see how you can argue with that...
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trumps all. Amazing!
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Ok, so after reading the decision, here's my question: regardless of what one feels about same sex marriage, is there anything to the accusations of judicial overreach mentioned in the dissent (I'm thinking about Alita in particular). I am glad for the ruling, but I am curious
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This made me laugh. A lot
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/its-legal-there#.oj15RjBWd
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@MrsSCB: bahahaha!
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@MrsSCB: ha I had just read that on my newsfeed on Facebook. LOL
ETA: what's so funny is the outright ignorance of these people. Why would you move to Canada? Canada has always been more liberal than the U.S. This whole "moving to Canada" thing started in the 60s with liberals/hippies/pacifists who opposed the Vietnam war and felt like they didn't have a voice in the US. They wanted to get out of the US and go somewhere that more aligned with their values. Right wingers saying I'm moving to Canada is absurd! -
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