Eleven years since the first legal same-sex marriages were performed in Massachusetts; seven years since the California Supreme Court ruled that marriage was a fundamental right not to be denied gay couples (only to be rebuked by Proposition 8 six months later); three years after the President of the United States stated his support for same-sex marriage; eight months after the Supreme Court refused to stay the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Kitchner v Herbert that Utah's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional; it's over.
In a 5-4 decision, as many expected, in an opinion written by Justice Kennedy, as most expected, and with Justice Scalia in opposition, as everyone expected, bans on same-sex marriages throughout the United States were declared unconsitutional today.
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. NOT.