JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
WELL FORGET ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.THE SODOMITES WILL BE FORCING THEIR FLAG DOWN THE 50 STATES NOW IN AMERICA.AS THE SUPREME COURT ALLOWS SODOMITES IN ALL 50 STATES TO MARRY.AND CHRISTIANS WILL BE SUFFERING BIGTIME.FORCING CHURCHES TO MARRY THESE HOMOSEXUAL-SODOMITES.WHEN ITS AGAINST GODS WORDS.-pic-imagefriend.com
HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
LEVITICUS 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
LEVITICUS 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.
2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
PSALMS 14:1
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
UPDATED-JUNE 26,2015-10:10AM
IN A 5-4 DECISION AT THE SUPREME COURT.THE SODOMITES ARE ALLOWED TO MARRY IN ALL 50 STATES.WE CAN SEE BIG TIME JUDGEMENT ON AMERICA COMING NOW.BECAUSE CHURCHES WILL BE FORCED TO MARRY HOMOSEXUAL-SODOMITES.OR PROBABLY BE THROWN IN JAIL.OR SUED.GAY MARRIAGE IS NOW REQUIRED TO BE DONE IN ALL 50 STATES.MAN OR FEMALE.OR OTHER.YOU CAN BET PEOPLE WILL BE MARRYING ANYTHING FROM SAND CRABS TO TREES.AFTER THIS DECISION.NOW AMERICA CAN TRUELY MARRY ANYTHING THEY WANT- INCLUDING THEMSELVES.THE FAMILY IS OFFICIALLY SHOT DOWN ON JUNE 26,15 NOW.10AM.
IN TODAYS DECISION JOHN ROBERTS WAS STRICTLY AGAINST THIS GAY MARRIAGE BILL.YET YESTERDAY HE MUST HAVE HAD A LITTLE CONVINCING BY THE WHITEHOUSE TO VOTE FOR OBAMACARE.BECAUSE HE VOTED FOR THE OBAMACARE.IN BOTH THESE CASES.THE SUPREME COURT IS THROWING PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS.AND FORCING OBAMACARE.AND NOW SODOMITE MARRIAGE DOWN THE THROATS OF ALL 50 STATES.THIS IS DEFINATELY THE END OF THE FAMILY IN AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT.
UPDATED-JUNE 26,2015-12:25PM
WELL OBAMA OUTDONE HIMSELF THIS TIME.HES REALLY SMART.OBAMA JUST ADVISED THE SUPREME COURT.BEHIND THE SCENES OF COURSE.TO VOTE FOR THIS SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN ALL 50 STATES.WHY WOULD OBAMA LOVE THIS SO MUCH.WELL WHAT A BETTER WAY TO HAVE POPULATION CONTROL.THE ENVIRO MENTALCASES ARE ALWAYS COMPLAIMING ABOUT POPULATION CONTROL.AND NOW WITH THE 50 STATES HAVING TO MARRY SAME SEX SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS.THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THE LEFT-WING-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATES.ALL LOVE THIS NEW BILL.BECAUSE IF YOU TRY TO GET SAME SEX PEOPLE TO MARRY OR JUST TEAM OFF.THE POPULATION WILL DECREASE BIG TIME.NO CHILDREN WILL BE BORN.AND MILLIONS WOULD BE KILLED OFF FROM AIDS.AND SINCE THERE WILL BE NO CHILDREN BORN TO ACCOUNT FOR ALL THE SODOMITE DEATHS FROM AIDS.WHAT A PERFECT WAY TO CONTROL YOUR POPULATION.WE CAN LOOK FOR SCHOOLS-BUSINESSES AND THE GOVERNMENTS IN AMERICA.TO PROMOTE THAT YOU BECOME GAY.AND GET MARRIED TO A SAME SEX PARTNER.SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN KILL OFF AS MUCH OF THE POPULATION AS THEY WANT.AND THIS WILL COMPLETELY DESTROY THE FAMILY AS WELL.THE KIDS WILL BE SO CONFUSED.THEY WILL JUST FALL RIGHT INTO THE DECEPTION. AND LINK UP WITH SAME SEX PARTNERS.SINCE THEY GET THE PROPAGANDA INGRAVED INTO THEM.THE DAY THEY START GOING TO KINDERGARDEN.AND THIS WILL BEING OUT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MARRY ANYTHING YOU WANT.IN THE NAME OF MARRIAGE.THIS IS THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT.
WATCH THE HURRICANES THIS YEAR.WATCH THE EARTHQUAKES FROM HERE ON IN.AND WATCH FOR THE ATOMIC BOMBS AFTER THIS DECISION.YOU CAN BET WHOLE CITIES WILL BE FRYED IN AMERICA.AFTER THIS GODLESS ABOMINATION AGAINST GODS WORD.
Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide-Reuters By Lawrence Hurley-june 27,15-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement.The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.Immediately after the decision, same-sex couples in many of the states where gay marriage had been banned headed to county clerks' offices for marriage licenses as officials in several states said they would respect the ruling.President Barack Obama, appearing in the White House Rose Garden, hailed the ruling as a milestone in American justice that arrived "like a thunderbolt.""This ruling is a victory for America," said Obama, the first sitting president to support gay marriage. "This decision affirms what millions of Americans already believe in their hearts. When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free."As night fell, the White House was lit in rainbow colors - a symbol of gay pride - to mark the high court's decision.The ruling, the culmination of a long legal fight by gay rights advocates, follows steady gains in public approval in recent years for same-sex marriage. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. But the decision may provoke fresh legal fights in some conservative, Republican-governed states.Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing on behalf of the court, said the hope of gay people intending to marry "is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.""Without the recognition, stability and predictability marriage offers, their children suffer the stigma of knowing their families are somehow lesser," Kennedy wrote.Kennedy, a conservative who often casts the deciding vote in close cases, was joined in the majority by the court's four liberal justices.Appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1988, Kennedy has now authored all four of the court's major gay rights rulings, with the first in 1996.The ruling is the Supreme Court's most important expansion of marriage rights in the United States since its landmark 1967 ruling in the case Loving v. Virginia that struck down state laws barring interracial marriages.At least two states, Louisiana and Mississippi, said they would not immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples while awaiting legal formalities. Supreme Court rulings generally take 25 days to go into effect.
"THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"
In a blistering dissenting opinion, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said the decision shows the court is a "threat to American democracy." The ruling "says that my ruler and the ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court," Scalia added.Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts read a summary of his dissent from the bench, the first time he has done so in his 10 years on the court. Roberts said although there are strong policy arguments in same-sex marriage, it was not the court's role to force states to change their marriage laws."Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law," Roberts wrote.The dissenters raised concerns about the impact of the case on people opposed to same-sex marriage on religious grounds.While the ruling only affects state laws and religious institutions can still choose whether to marry same-sex couples, Roberts predicted future legal conflicts."Hard questions arise when people of faith exercise religion in ways that may be seen to conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage," Roberts said.There were 13 state bans in place, while another state, Alabama, had contested a court ruling that lifted the ban there.The ruling is the latest milestone in the gay rights movement. In 2010, Obama signed a law allowing gays to serve openly in the U.S. military. In 2013, the high court ruled unconstitutional a 1996 U.S. law that declared for the purposes of federal benefits marriage was defined as between one man and one woman.Reaction came swiftly. James Obergefell, the Ohio man who was the lead plaintiff in the case, told a cheering crowd outside the Supreme Court, "Today's ruling from the Supreme Court affirms what millions across this country already know to be true in our hearts - our love is equal, that the four words etched onto the front of the Supreme Court - equal justice under law - apply to us, too."
Obama telephoned Obergefell to offer congratulations.
Hundreds of gay rights supporters celebrated outside the courthouse with whoops and cries of "U-S-A!" and "Love is love" as the decision came down.In Ann Arbor, Michigan, another of the plaintiffs, April DeBeor, told cheering supporters, "To my beautiful children, we did this for you," referring to her adopted children."Love won," added popular comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who is gay.
"JUDICIAL TYRANNY"
Conservatives denounced the ruling. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called it "an out-of-control act of unconstitutional judicial tyranny."Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, who is expected to run for president, called for amending the U.S. Constitution to allow states to again ban same-sex marriage. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said, "Marriage was defined by God. No man can redefine it."Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said, "It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage."Opponents say same-sex marriage's legality should be decided by states, not judges. Some opponents argue it is an affront to traditional marriage between a man and a woman and that the Bible condemns homosexuality.Gay marriage is also gaining acceptance in other Western countries. Last month in Ireland, voters backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Roman Catholic country.Ireland followed several Western European countries including Britain, France and Spain in allowing gay marriage, which is also legal in South Africa, Brazil and Canada. But homosexuality remains taboo and often illegal in many parts of Africa and Asia.The Supreme Court's ruling came in a consolidated case pulling together challenges filed by same-sex couples to gay marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.The Obama administration argued on the side of the same-sex marriage advocates.(Additional reporting by Joan Biskupic, Megan Cassella, Bill Trott, Fiona Ortiz, Mary Wisniewski, Ben Klayman, Ayesha Rascoe, Jon Herskovitz, Lindsay Dunsmuir, Any Sullivan and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Will Dunham and Leslie Adler)
WELL FORGET ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.THE SODOMITES WILL BE FORCING THEIR FLAG DOWN THE 50 STATES NOW IN AMERICA.AS THE SUPREME COURT ALLOWS SODOMITES IN ALL 50 STATES TO MARRY.AND CHRISTIANS WILL BE SUFFERING BIGTIME.FORCING CHURCHES TO MARRY THESE HOMOSEXUAL-SODOMITES.WHEN ITS AGAINST GODS WORDS.-pic-imagefriend.com HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)
LEVITICUS 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
LEVITICUS 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.
2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
PSALMS 14:1
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
UPDATED-JUNE 26,2015-10:10AM
IN A 5-4 DECISION AT THE SUPREME COURT.THE SODOMITES ARE ALLOWED TO MARRY IN ALL 50 STATES.WE CAN SEE BIG TIME JUDGEMENT ON AMERICA COMING NOW.BECAUSE CHURCHES WILL BE FORCED TO MARRY HOMOSEXUAL-SODOMITES.OR PROBABLY BE THROWN IN JAIL.OR SUED.GAY MARRIAGE IS NOW REQUIRED TO BE DONE IN ALL 50 STATES.MAN OR FEMALE.OR OTHER.YOU CAN BET PEOPLE WILL BE MARRYING ANYTHING FROM SAND CRABS TO TREES.AFTER THIS DECISION.NOW AMERICA CAN TRUELY MARRY ANYTHING THEY WANT- INCLUDING THEMSELVES.THE FAMILY IS OFFICIALLY SHOT DOWN ON JUNE 26,15 NOW.10AM.
IN TODAYS DECISION JOHN ROBERTS WAS STRICTLY AGAINST THIS GAY MARRIAGE BILL.YET YESTERDAY HE MUST HAVE HAD A LITTLE CONVINCING BY THE WHITEHOUSE TO VOTE FOR OBAMACARE.BECAUSE HE VOTED FOR THE OBAMACARE.IN BOTH THESE CASES.THE SUPREME COURT IS THROWING PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS.AND FORCING OBAMACARE.AND NOW SODOMITE MARRIAGE DOWN THE THROATS OF ALL 50 STATES.THIS IS DEFINATELY THE END OF THE FAMILY IN AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT.
UPDATED-JUNE 26,2015-12:25PM
WELL OBAMA OUTDONE HIMSELF THIS TIME.HES REALLY SMART.OBAMA JUST ADVISED THE SUPREME COURT.BEHIND THE SCENES OF COURSE.TO VOTE FOR THIS SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN ALL 50 STATES.WHY WOULD OBAMA LOVE THIS SO MUCH.WELL WHAT A BETTER WAY TO HAVE POPULATION CONTROL.THE ENVIRO MENTALCASES ARE ALWAYS COMPLAIMING ABOUT POPULATION CONTROL.AND NOW WITH THE 50 STATES HAVING TO MARRY SAME SEX SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS.THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THE LEFT-WING-LIBERAL-DEMOCRATES.ALL LOVE THIS NEW BILL.BECAUSE IF YOU TRY TO GET SAME SEX PEOPLE TO MARRY OR JUST TEAM OFF.THE POPULATION WILL DECREASE BIG TIME.NO CHILDREN WILL BE BORN.AND MILLIONS WOULD BE KILLED OFF FROM AIDS.AND SINCE THERE WILL BE NO CHILDREN BORN TO ACCOUNT FOR ALL THE SODOMITE DEATHS FROM AIDS.WHAT A PERFECT WAY TO CONTROL YOUR POPULATION.WE CAN LOOK FOR SCHOOLS-BUSINESSES AND THE GOVERNMENTS IN AMERICA.TO PROMOTE THAT YOU BECOME GAY.AND GET MARRIED TO A SAME SEX PARTNER.SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN KILL OFF AS MUCH OF THE POPULATION AS THEY WANT.AND THIS WILL COMPLETELY DESTROY THE FAMILY AS WELL.THE KIDS WILL BE SO CONFUSED.THEY WILL JUST FALL RIGHT INTO THE DECEPTION. AND LINK UP WITH SAME SEX PARTNERS.SINCE THEY GET THE PROPAGANDA INGRAVED INTO THEM.THE DAY THEY START GOING TO KINDERGARDEN.AND THIS WILL BEING OUT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MARRY ANYTHING YOU WANT.IN THE NAME OF MARRIAGE.THIS IS THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT.
WATCH THE HURRICANES THIS YEAR.WATCH THE EARTHQUAKES FROM HERE ON IN.AND WATCH FOR THE ATOMIC BOMBS AFTER THIS DECISION.YOU CAN BET WHOLE CITIES WILL BE FRYED IN AMERICA.AFTER THIS GODLESS ABOMINATION AGAINST GODS WORD.
Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide-Reuters By Lawrence Hurley-june 27,15-yahoonews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement.The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.Immediately after the decision, same-sex couples in many of the states where gay marriage had been banned headed to county clerks' offices for marriage licenses as officials in several states said they would respect the ruling.President Barack Obama, appearing in the White House Rose Garden, hailed the ruling as a milestone in American justice that arrived "like a thunderbolt.""This ruling is a victory for America," said Obama, the first sitting president to support gay marriage. "This decision affirms what millions of Americans already believe in their hearts. When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free."As night fell, the White House was lit in rainbow colors - a symbol of gay pride - to mark the high court's decision.The ruling, the culmination of a long legal fight by gay rights advocates, follows steady gains in public approval in recent years for same-sex marriage. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage. But the decision may provoke fresh legal fights in some conservative, Republican-governed states.Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing on behalf of the court, said the hope of gay people intending to marry "is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.""Without the recognition, stability and predictability marriage offers, their children suffer the stigma of knowing their families are somehow lesser," Kennedy wrote.Kennedy, a conservative who often casts the deciding vote in close cases, was joined in the majority by the court's four liberal justices.Appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1988, Kennedy has now authored all four of the court's major gay rights rulings, with the first in 1996.The ruling is the Supreme Court's most important expansion of marriage rights in the United States since its landmark 1967 ruling in the case Loving v. Virginia that struck down state laws barring interracial marriages.At least two states, Louisiana and Mississippi, said they would not immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples while awaiting legal formalities. Supreme Court rulings generally take 25 days to go into effect.
"THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"
In a blistering dissenting opinion, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said the decision shows the court is a "threat to American democracy." The ruling "says that my ruler and the ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court," Scalia added.Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts read a summary of his dissent from the bench, the first time he has done so in his 10 years on the court. Roberts said although there are strong policy arguments in same-sex marriage, it was not the court's role to force states to change their marriage laws."Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law," Roberts wrote.The dissenters raised concerns about the impact of the case on people opposed to same-sex marriage on religious grounds.While the ruling only affects state laws and religious institutions can still choose whether to marry same-sex couples, Roberts predicted future legal conflicts."Hard questions arise when people of faith exercise religion in ways that may be seen to conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage," Roberts said.There were 13 state bans in place, while another state, Alabama, had contested a court ruling that lifted the ban there.The ruling is the latest milestone in the gay rights movement. In 2010, Obama signed a law allowing gays to serve openly in the U.S. military. In 2013, the high court ruled unconstitutional a 1996 U.S. law that declared for the purposes of federal benefits marriage was defined as between one man and one woman.Reaction came swiftly. James Obergefell, the Ohio man who was the lead plaintiff in the case, told a cheering crowd outside the Supreme Court, "Today's ruling from the Supreme Court affirms what millions across this country already know to be true in our hearts - our love is equal, that the four words etched onto the front of the Supreme Court - equal justice under law - apply to us, too."
Obama telephoned Obergefell to offer congratulations.
Hundreds of gay rights supporters celebrated outside the courthouse with whoops and cries of "U-S-A!" and "Love is love" as the decision came down.In Ann Arbor, Michigan, another of the plaintiffs, April DeBeor, told cheering supporters, "To my beautiful children, we did this for you," referring to her adopted children."Love won," added popular comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who is gay.
"JUDICIAL TYRANNY"
Conservatives denounced the ruling. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called it "an out-of-control act of unconstitutional judicial tyranny."Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, who is expected to run for president, called for amending the U.S. Constitution to allow states to again ban same-sex marriage. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said, "Marriage was defined by God. No man can redefine it."Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said, "It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage."Opponents say same-sex marriage's legality should be decided by states, not judges. Some opponents argue it is an affront to traditional marriage between a man and a woman and that the Bible condemns homosexuality.Gay marriage is also gaining acceptance in other Western countries. Last month in Ireland, voters backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Roman Catholic country.Ireland followed several Western European countries including Britain, France and Spain in allowing gay marriage, which is also legal in South Africa, Brazil and Canada. But homosexuality remains taboo and often illegal in many parts of Africa and Asia.The Supreme Court's ruling came in a consolidated case pulling together challenges filed by same-sex couples to gay marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.The Obama administration argued on the side of the same-sex marriage advocates.(Additional reporting by Joan Biskupic, Megan Cassella, Bill Trott, Fiona Ortiz, Mary Wisniewski, Ben Klayman, Ayesha Rascoe, Jon Herskovitz, Lindsay Dunsmuir, Any Sullivan and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Will Dunham and Leslie Adler)
