Oral arguments were heard today in New Jersey’s gay marriage case, on the State of New Jersey’s motion to dismiss. (The State opposes court-ordered gay marriage.) You can read the various legal briefs in the New Jersey case (note that the website is for a group that opposes gay marriage).
A ruling on the motion to dismiss will be issued in approximately two months.
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Yesterday’s decision has already had a concrete effect:
“In one of the first consequences of its landmark ruling on gay rights on Thursday, the Supreme Court today set aside the lengthy prison sentence imposed on a gay Kansas teenager for having had sex with a younger boy.”
If the man had had sex with a 14-year-old girl, he would have gotten probation, but because it was a 14-year-old boy, the guy was sentenced to 17 years in a correctional facility. The Supreme Court today basically said “I don’t think so,” and sent the case back down today “for further reconsideration in light of Lawrence v. Texas.”
Awesome.