SCOTUS: Swing Vote Justice Kennedy Sends Mixed Messages On Marriage Equality

Reuters correspondent David Ingram reports from the live oral arguments for same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court.

Assumed "swing-vote" Justice Kennedy mentioned the idea that marriage has been the same for "millenia:"

Kennedy: "This definition has been with us for millenia, and I think it's very difficult for this court to say we know better." #SCOTUS
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Kennedy multiple times talked about marriage being the same for "millenia." He said he "kept coming back" to that thought. #ReutersSCOTUS
— David Ingram (@David_Ingram) April 28, 2015

Later, Kennedy offered a couple of encouraging signs as he noted that a principal purpose of marriage was to afford dignity, which is denied to same-sex couples. He also said the fact that same-sex couples raise children hurt state's arguments against marriage equality. Via SCOTUSblog: