The Obama Administration has just filed a Supreme Court brief announcing its belief that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.
“The laws they challenge exclude a long-mistreated class of human beings from a legal and social status of tremendous import. Those laws are not adequately justified by any of the advanced rationales. They are accordingly incompatible with the Constitution.”
So concludes a lengthy amicus brief the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court.Â
The administration is stating bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, and it adds that LGBT people are “a long-mistreated class of human beings.”
The nation’s top court will hear oral arguments on four same-sex marriage cases April 28.
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Hat tip: Huffington Post