The Supreme Court's decision to bypass ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex weddings "is a big, big, big victory for gay marriage," Alan Dershowitz tells
Newsmax TV.
And the famed civil-rights attorney and Harvard Law professor believes that even though same-sex marriage remains a political hot-button, history will show that Americans are ready for it.
"[It was] the same thing with miscegenation, the vast majority of Americans even in that time probably were against miscegenation," Dershowitz said of the mixing of different races through marriage.
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"It's not a left, right, liberal, conservative issue. A lot of libertarians who are conservative in general want to keep the government out of our bedrooms and out of our churches and out of our marital city halls.
"Our grandchildren will look back at this day and say thank goodness we moved forward, we recognized the equality of gays and gay marriage and it's a step in the right direction toward equality."
Some have compared the same-sex marriage issue to that of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that paved the way for legal abortions.
But Dershowitz said there are major differences.
"The precedent of Roe is, you know Roe is a much more complex case because the fetus, many people believe is a live, human being and it's a very, very difficult conflict," he said.
"Roe vs. Wade didn't change many, many minds on that, but gay marriage, who's hurt? Who's ever affected? There's no victim there. My marriage isn't weakened because I had dinner last night … with a gay couple that recently just got married.
"They've been together 34 years, longer than all of our married friends and they're the most wonderful people in the world."
Commenting on the growing concern that the Ebola virus will spread in the United States, Dershowitz said a ban on flights to and from nations where illness is mushrooming would be legal.
"The executive and the legislative authority extends clearly to protecting our people from Ebola. We can even go as far as preventing American citizens from traveling to areas that has Ebola," he said.
"There is plenty of constitutional authority to ban travel and to do whatever it takes to prevent Ebola from spreading. I have no problem constitutionally [with that].
"That's a medical decision to be done by public health doctors, but if the public health doctors say yes they're completely in favor of it, I would argue the constitutionality of it, yes."
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