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Please Kiss the Justices

For decades, indeed centuries, in much of this country (including Massachusetts) no lawful marriage was possible between white and black Americans. . . . . In this case, as in Perez and Loving, a statute deprives individuals of access to an institution of fundamental legal, personal, and social significance—the institution of marriage—because of a single trait . . . . . The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship on a very real segment of the community for no rational reason.

Goodridge, et al. v. Department of Public Health, et al.
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