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The right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person.… Same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. The United States Supreme Court, Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) Defining the Issue On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first nation to legalise same-sex marriages. Since then, a tidal wave of change has swept across different nations, and most Western countries now allow same-sex marriage.  In 2015, the United States Supreme Court mandated that same-sex marriage be legal in all fifty states in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision. The ruling was especially controversial because the majority of states had laws limiting marriage to one man and one woman, laws usually passed by referendum of the citizens themselves.  Many Christians consider the Obergefell decision a case of judicial overreach and hope to see it overruled by a more conservative court at some point in the future. There are numerous arguments cited in favour of same-sex ...

Marriage matters because kids deserve a mom and a dad. You've heard me say this again and again. And you've also heard me explain that this isn't a difficult concept or theory to grasp: I've said over and over that it is simply common sense . But when you look around the world today, and increasingly in our own country — especially over the past few weeks — it can be tough to fathom how, if that is really "common sense," so many people manage to discard or ignore it. How can so many folks in our country — ordinary citizens, judges, state legislators — seem to see the matter of marriage so differently from us and from how it's been known in almost every country for all time, if it truly is a matter of "common sense"? Well, perhaps to them the phrase 'common sense' might not mean what we think it means. The philosopher Heraclitus noted that, "While wisdom is common, many live as if they own their own wisdom." Put another way, co...