Love is love, love is universal, love conquers all, love just won! SCOTUS rules in favor of same sex marriage! All of us at Hearts & Homes for Youth are so happy for the couples, children, and families affected by this decision. Family is the bedrock of our society; families are all different and we embrace that at Hearts & Homes.

We were touched by the beautiful words from Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion: “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”