"the land of the free."

Whether states can ban same-sex marriage. Whether states with gay marriage bans can refuse to recognize marriages performed in other jurisdictions where same-sex marriage is legal.

"No union is more profound than marriage

"Change must have seemed so slow for so long," Obama said. "But compared to so many other issues, America's shift has been so quick."

Obama called the decision "a victory for America" and said it "affirms what millions of Americans already believe in their hearts."

"When all Americans are treated equal, we are all more free,"

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right,"

The decision upholds the Fourteenth Amendment that requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state, according to the court document.

The Supreme Court on Friday legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. In the 5-4 landmark decision, the majority of justices ruled that states must license same-sex marriages and also recognize gay marriages performed legally in other states.

If gay marriage increases and heterosexual marriage decreases, society will be harmed.

So, when marriage is redefined, the society is dramatically affected.

There are different kinds of harm: physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, etc.

"By affirming the rights of all loving couples to commit to each other with the full weight of legal protection that marriage affords, the Supreme Court has affirmed a founding principle that we must all continue to strive for: a more perfect union."

Here, a group of men hug outside New York's Stonewall Inn, the site of the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots, an event many people look to as the start of the modern LGBT rights movement.

Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide

"Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it."

same-sex couples should be able to exercise the right to marry in all states, people in the Court's public gallery broke into smiles and some wiped tears from their eyes.

"Their hope," Kennedy wrote, "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."

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family," Kennedy wrote. "In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were."

"there is not yet a legal requirement for officials to issue marriage licenses or perform marriages for same-sex couples in Louisiana."

"Friday, the United States Supreme Court again ignored the text and spirit of the Constitution to manufacture a right that simply does not exist. In so doing, the court weakened itself and weakened the rule of law

Same-sex couples should have access to the same benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples.

Legalizing gay marriage will not harm the institution of marriage, and same-sex marriages may even be more stable than heterosexual marriages.

Denying some people the option to marry is discriminatory and creates a second class of citizens.

That is unnecessary when the legal and moral imperative for same-sex marriage has been so plainly demonstrated, and it is absurd to leave the state bans still intact in some sort of legal limbo.

But despite the steady rise in acceptance of same-sex marriage across the country, millions of gay and lesbian couples are still denied adequate legal protection.

Bacteria can spread from a cow's udders to its milk.

Bacteria can spread from a cow's udders to its milk.

Human or animal feces infected with E. coli sometimes get into lakes, pools, and water supplies. People can become infected when a contaminated city or town water supply has not been properly treated with chlorine or when people accidentally swallow contaminated water while swimming in a lake, pool, or irrigation canal.

Thousands of schools across the U.S. rushed last year to stop feeding their students meat that contained the ammonia-treated beef, known by industry as lean finely textured beef.

Kids are going back to school and so is the ground beef filler dubbed “pink slime.”