Supreme Court

Supreme Court: Calling it "the Cinderella moment for the lesbian and gay marriage equality movement," Yale law school professor William Eskridge told News that "as a legal and constitutional matter, the traditional presumption against state recognition of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered LGBT couples has been reversed and the momentum is now on the side of marriage equality.", according to CBC. Edith Windsor, the woman at the heart of one those decisions, said that "because of today's Supreme Court ruling, every child born today will be able to grow up in a world where the federal government won't discriminate against their marriages no matter who they are." Legal experts, supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage seem to agree: Taken together, the U.S. Supreme Court's two decisions on Wednesday concerning same-sex marriage are hugely important. Stuart Gaffney of Marriage Equality USA, speaking to News by telephone from a huge celebration outside San Francisco's city hall immediately following the court decisions, said "we are ecstatic to get another landmark ruling from the Supreme Court advancing the rights of LGBT Americans towards full citizenship." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.