article_snippet.sent: Justice Anthony Kennedy, Top US court's pivotal member on gay .
article_snippet.sent: rights, has been marching in this direction with opinions dating .
article_snippet.sent: In his most recent gay rights decision for Top US court in .
article_snippet.sent: 2013, rejecting a legal definition of marriage limited to a man .
article_snippet.sent: that U.S. law for making gay marriages 'unequal.'
article_snippet.sent: That 5-4 decision did not address a constitutional right to .
article_snippet.sent: same-sex marriage, but lower court judges interpreted the ruling .
article_snippet.sent: as an endorsement of the ruling and began invalidating state bans.
article_snippet.sent: When states appealed rulings striking down states same-sex .
article_snippet.sent: marriage prohibitions, Top US court declined to intervene, .
article_snippet.sent: upheld gay marriage bans in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and .
article_snippet.sent: reveal a clear view that the Constitution gives gay people a . right to marry or will the court's five-man voice concerns for state interests in .
article_snippet.sent: the deciding vote upholding President Barack Obama's healthcare .
article_snippet.sent: dissenters and declined to declare outright that states may ban .
article_snippet.sent: sentiment that federal lawmakers were deliberately harming gay .
article_snippet.sent: to state same-sex marriage bans.
article_snippet.sent: Constitution guarantees same-sex marriage.
article_snippet.sent: Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection .
article_snippet.sent: cover a right to same-sex marriage; and, if they do not, whether .