In Michigan and across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling is allowing same-sex marriages. For those who got married, many rights of opposite-sex couple may not be excersised by gays and lesbian as they may not be treated fairly on tax benefits, hospital visitations, joint adoptions and more.
Even if the court rules this, people are still expecting this to abolish same-sex marriage bans in Michigan and three other statess. Just like the rest of the country same-sex couples' legal questions won't be settled. And in sorting out the ruling, a lot of it will fall on the states - in the sense that it will not be supporting gay and lesbian rights.
The Michigan state's ruling provision on housing, employment or public accommodation, have no statewide statute barring discrimination on the basis of a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender. No matter how the court rules in the state, gays or lesbians can have restaurant services and landlords can also offer rent unless there is a local ordinance opposite in nature.
Richard Primus, University of Michigan Law professor, said, "We are no longer going to see federal rules that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation" if there's a ruling for same-sex marriage supporters," professor Primus added, "but that doesn't mean we'll have laws that prohibit private entities from discriminating."
The executive director of the Denver-based Movement Advancement Project - Ineke Mushovic, stated: "It gets very complicated," Ineke Mushovic also added: "If we have an affirmative Supreme Court decision, there's no doubt it's going to be an amazing moment. ... Yet we need people to understand how much inequality will still remain."
The National Journal posted on what will happen if same-sex marriage will be rejected by the Supreme Court? Same-sex marriage is expected to be legalized nationwide by the Supreme Court at the end of the month. But if the court openly resists the predictions, the court's ruling would result to one of the most conflicting culture wars in the past 20 years.
