Supreme Court justices have ruled that the 14th Amendment must prohibit states from barring gay couples from the right to marry. The case that made this possible was Obergefell v Hodges, which began in April 2015. Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the Supreme Court justices, states: “The exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage is therefore in conflict with a central premise of the law. right to marry. Without the recognition, stability and predictability that marriage offers, their children suffer the stigma of knowing that their families are somehow inferior…” (“A Constitutional Right”). Furthermore, Justice Antonin Scalia implied: “The law can recognize as marriage any sexual attachment and any form of life desired”