BREAKING NEWS: Same Sex Marriage Declared Legal In All States Of USA

The Supreme Court today ruled that gay marriage should be allowed across the entire United States, settling once and for all one of America's most divisive social questions.

The landmark ruling from America's high court means that all states, even in the deeply conservative South, must allow same-sex couples to marry.

The decision was met with cheers and weeping from gay rights activists gathered on the on the marble steps of the Supreme Court.

The ruling represents an extraordinary turning point in US history just eleven years after Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay couples to wed.