It is so ordered.

Thus, the final words of Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion written last Thursday, June 26, when the United States Supreme Court held that all same-sex marriage bans violate the 14th Amendment of the federal Constitution.   We at Radius welcome this decision with joy and gladness.  Social justice is at the core of our work and with this decision, equality and justice has been served.  Justice Kennedy's eloquent and moving words say it all:

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope 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.

It is so ordered.

Amen.