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Marriage Is a Right, Not an Obligation
Celebrate Justice Kennedy's opinion, but remember that single people can be happy, too.
She said yes.
Photographer: David McNew/Getty ImagesJustice William O. Douglas, who wrote the most famous paean to marriage in Supreme Court history before Friday,1435431867440 loved marriage so much he did it four times. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the court's landmark opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges has been married to the same woman for more than 50 years -- he, too, seems profoundly committed to the institution’s importance.