Supreme Court justices have ruled that the 14th Amendment must prohibit states from denying same-sex couples the right to marry. The case that allowed this to happen was Obergefell v. Hodges, which began in April 2015. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is one of the Supreme Court's justices, says: "The exclusion of couples Same-sex marriage therefore conflicts with a central premise of the law. right to marry. Without the recognition, stability, and predictability that marriage provides, their children suffer the stigma of knowing that their family is somehow lesser…” (“A Constitutional Right”). Justice Antonin Scalia also suggested that "the law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes.".”