Saturday, April 18, 2015

The Supreme Court's big gay-marriage case could rock the 2016 presidential race

April 19 2015
Unit 4: Institutions of the Gov't

http://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-courts-gay-marriage-case-could-rock-2016-2015-4

The United States Supreme Court is taking on a federal question case on whether or not bans against same-sex marriage in states are constitutional.  Same-sex marriage is recognized in over half of the states in the United States with a quite large population of citizens considering themselves attracted to the same sex.  The Supreme Court is set to discuss same-sex marriage constitutionality in mid June.  With a large amount of the population is becoming more accepting and open-minded of LGBT-equality, causing politicians to change or flip-flop views on homosexual marriage, and changing the course the 2016 election is going to take.  Several cases have been brought to the attention of the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of bans and legality of same-sex marriage so the Supreme Court is finally addressing the issue this year.  Thirty-seven states have approved same-sex marriages including Pennsylvania, New York, New Mexico, and Alaska.  Thirteen states have enacted bans on same-sex marriages including Georgia, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Ohio.
It is not difficult to see the path same-sex marriage is taking.  It will be quite unexpected if the Supreme Court were to go and declare bans on same-sex marriage constitutional and the whole aspect of the marriages unconstitutional.  Judicial philosophy suggests that if one justice were to vote in favor of same-sex marriage then none of the others would want to go down in the history books as the one or two judge(s) to vote against the marriages.  I am quite hopeful that same-sex marriage will be prevalent the day, as the Supreme Court rules in favor of it.  As for the election of 2016, it would not surprise me either if American elected a president such as Hillary, with the democratic shift and liberal views dominating current issues in the government.          


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