The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that The Constitution guarantees marriage equality — that same-sex couples can marry.
Following the closest of margins ruling (5-4), The White House changed its Facebook Profile Picture to a multi-coloured house — a move 'liked' by a quarter of a million people within hours of the update — including Mr Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
The ruling comes five weeks after the people of Ireland voted in favour of changing their country's Constitution to recognise same-sex marriage, making marriage between two people legal irrespective of the gender of the partners to the marriage.
Immediately following the ruling, President Obama made a statement in which he said "Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle: that we are all created equal." Mr Obama said the ruling guarantees the end of the patchwork system that exists... to end the uncertainty hundreds of thousands of same-couples face, not knowing whether marriage — legitimate in the eyes of one state — will remain if they decide to move [to] or even visit another.
