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The FIRST Same-Sex Marriage In Dallas County

Jack Evans and George Harris of Dallas, Texas

Together 54 years!!!!

(I am blissfully aware that I just wrote the words “same-sex marriage in Dallas County.”

This day.

Just – this day. I’ll leave it at that.

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WATCH: First same-sex marriage in Dallas County #SCOTUSMarriage
Posted by WFAA-TV on Friday, June 26, 2015

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Read Justice Kennedy’s Closing Line Making Same-Sex Marriage Legal

From the majority opinion making same-sex marriage the law of the land as written by Supreme Court Justice Kennedy:

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death.

It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions.

They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed.

(h/t Towleroad)

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SCOTUS Rules On Marriage Equality

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the 14th Amendment DOES require states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples!!!!!!

The ruling effectively overturns gay marriage bans in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan.

I can imagine June 26th will be the unofficial Gay Rights Day from here on considering the decision today, the 2013 decision on the same date that struck down DOMA and the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling that struck down sodomy laws.

From the ruling today:

“It is now clear that the challenged laws burden the liberty of same-sex couples, and it must be further acknowledged that they abridge central precepts of equality . . . Especially against a long history of disapproval of their relationships, this denial to same-sex couples of the right to marry works a grave and continuing harm. The imposition of this disability on gays and lesbians serves to disrespect and subordinate them. And the Equal Protection Clause, like the Due Process Clause, prohibits this unjustified infringement of the fundamental right to marry.”

(drops mic…)

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Matt Baume: What Is The Definition Of “Traditional Marriage?”

Matt Baume breaks down the actual reality & definition(s) of so-called “traditional marriage.”

Traditional marriage isn’t the “one man, one woman” story you’ve always heard. It’s changed countless times over the last 4,000 years, almost always for the better.

Let’s take a look at all the different things that marriage has been, and the one thing that has remained constant about marriage over all those millennia.

Baume sums it up well like this: “Letting same-sex couples get married is actually completely traditional. It’s part of the tradition of constantly improving the institution of marriage.”