Sentence examples for entitled to marry from inspiring English sources

It pointedly did not say they were entitled to marry.

The court outlawed capital punishment in 1995 and ruled in 2005 that gays and lesbians are entitled to marry.

This month, a state court judge in Seattle ruled that same-sex couples were entitled to marry under the state's Constitution.

The lawsuits also maintain that the November court decision legalizing same-sex marriage meant that all gay couples were entitled to marry, including those from out of state.

In political terms, he has set in train a national debate in America about equality, fairness and who is entitled to marry.

SOMETIMES the Supreme Court takes on questions that matter a great deal to many Americans: whether you are entitled to marry your beloved, for example, or which presidential candidate wins an election.

"They're not entitled to get married in the state of Massachusetts," he said.

Many hold equally strong religious, moral and ethical convictions that same-sex couples are entitled to be married and that homosexual persons should be treated no differently than their heterosexual neighbors.

But there is an equally important individual interest--and, by extension, individual right--that every American is entitled to: "The right to marry," the Prop 8 plaintiffs write in their brief, "has always been based on, and defined by, the constitutional liberty to select the partner of one's choice".

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights.

Whether those same-sex couples will be considered legally wed under state law -- and entitled to the same benefits as married couples of the opposite sex -- is likely to be decided by the courts.