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"content": "\u003cp>Cleve Jones was on 18th Street in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood when he heard the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the AIDS activist and co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaf.org/?referrer=https://www.google.com/\">San Francisco AIDS Foundation\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/26/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage\">U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage\u003c/a> brought him to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I began the day by weeping,\" said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former adviser to \u003ca href=\"http://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a>, the pioneering San Francisco supervisor killed in 1978, is known for creating the enormous \u003ca href=\"http://www.aidsquilt.org/\">NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt\u003c/a>, which celebrated those who died of AIDS or AIDS-related causes. At 54 tons, it's the largest piece of community folk art in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a> News reporter Tara Siler asked Jones about the significance of today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212155511\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleve Jones: \u003c/strong>I got up at 7:02 a.m. and turned on the computer and totally lost it. I'm 60 years old and I did not think I would live to see this day. I'm so very grateful to be alive, but I also remember all of my wonderful friends and comrades who didn't live long enough to see this day. 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For all 50 states, and all of humanity!\" \u003cstrong>– Walter Gaylord\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6922-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"These two friends are visiting from San Diego (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two friends are visiting from San Diego (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's about damn time, America! But I'm afraid this will make hateful people worse. I'm worried you will see more protesters than usual at the pride parade. \u003cstrong>-- Maurice Egan (right) and Marco Bullock from San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6915.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578859 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6915-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Cacari Stone and Roberta Duran are visiting from New Mexico (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Cacari Stone and Roberta Duran are visiting from New Mexico (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're part of the Sandoval 64 -- we were married in 2004 when our county clerk issued marriage licenses for a short time. We were in limbo until last winter. I can't believe we're seeing this in our lifetime. But it's a sweet sorrow today because with the funeral in Charleston -- we're still killing people if you're visibly gay or black.\" \u003cstrong>-- Lisa Cacari Stone (left) and partner of 20 years Roberta Duran, from New Mexico.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Kendell, who leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights, has been at the forefront of this political and legal movement. She spoke to KQED's Tara Siler, \"I want to harness this momentum. Economic inequality still festers, racism is still corrosive and in so many places in this country. LGBT people are in every community and we are impacted by inequality.\"\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212158991\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6888.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578855 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6888-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Some Castro dignitaries joined the celebration (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Castro dignitaries joined the celebration (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm the creator of the rainbow flag-- Google it! \u003cstrong>-- Gilbert Baker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I began the day by weeping,” Cleve Jones, AIDS activist and former adviser to Harvey Milk, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/26/cleve-jones-marriage-equality-is-an-extraordinary-victory-for-everybody\" target=\"_blank\">told KQED's Tara Siler\u003c/a>. \"I got up at 7:02 a.m. and turned on the computer and totally lost it. I’m 60 years old and I did not think I would live to see this day. I’m so very grateful to be alive, but I also remember all of my wonderful friends and comrades who didn’t live long enough to see this day. So they’re very much with me and my thoughts, and they’ll be with us tonight as we party and dance on Castro Street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212155511\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- Earlier --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall Friday morning after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/26/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans\u003c/a> on same-sex marriage nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578256\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-800x293.jpg\" alt=\"Elected officials spoke at a press conference outside San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-800x293.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-400x146.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-1440x527.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-1180x432.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-960x351.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan.jpg 1640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elected officials spoke at a press conference outside San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"What a wonderful day,\" said San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera. Reflecting on \"where we were 11 years ago, and the challenges we knew we were going to face,\" Herrera said, \"We've had a lot of ups, we've had some downs. But all of us collectively never ever wavered in doing what was right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera added that he believes there is more work to be done to end discriminatory practices against same-sex couples. \"This is another brick in the wall of equality,\" he said. \"But there is still discrimination we have to fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578379\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578379 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"“Today, San Francisco’s values become America’s values,” said State Senator Mark Leno (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Today, San Francisco’s values become America’s values,” said state Sen. Mark Leno. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mark Leno hailed the U.S. Supreme Court decision as a milestone, saying, \"Today, San Francisco's values become America's values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he echoed the sentiment that there is more to be done. \"How can you get married this morning and get fired this afternoon, because of the gender of your spouse?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Time and time again, this community has said, 'Hell no, we're not going anywhere,' \" said Supervisor Scott Wiener. \"Today we win again. It's a giant step forward, but our work isn't done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos linked the battle for marriage equality to broader social justice issues. \"Forty percent of our homeless are queer,\" he said. \"It's not just legal equality, but socioeconomic equality for everyone in the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578382 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing in front of City Hall Friday, was mayor in 2004 when he ordered the San Francisco county clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses, which was against state law (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing in front of City Hall Friday, was mayor in 2004 when he ordered the San Francisco county clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses, which was against state law (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Today is the antidote to cynicism,\" said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had it not been for all of you and millions and millions of conversations that were held and won, there would be no Supreme Court decision like the one held today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee praised the decision. “Never have we been more committed, and more united, as a city and a nation, behind marriage equality in our country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, same-sex couples were up early to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They're vintage shirts, from 2004. In 2000, at our first marriage, the minister refused to sign any marriage licenses, gay or straight, until we could all get married. (It was) at the Unitarian Church on Franklin where we first met. We've been together 35 years. Over time you become less of just one person and more of a couple. And the communication develops.\" \u003cstrong> -- Don Williams (left) and David Jones\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Beatrice and Jennifer Deavers were spotted waiting outside Orphan Andy's restaurant, with their 1-year-old daughter. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-1440x1080.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatrice and Jennifer Deavers were spotted waiting outside Orphan Andy's restaurant, with their 1-year-old daughter. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It's eight years living in the closet, it's having to deliver in D.C. because I couldn't be in Virginia because we couldn't both be on the birth certificate of my daughter. A lot of shackles have been opened up and released today, you know? I now will never, ever doubt whether or not I should hold my wife's hand when I walk down the sidewalk in any street, across this nation. It's a big deal, it's a big deal. I don't think I've actually processed everything that's been happening just in the last few hours when this got released. I'm thankful to those little interns that were running back and forth across the marble steps of the Supreme Court to deliver this news. They have no idea what they've probably just did for all of us, so it was great. \" \u003cstrong>-- Jennifer Deavers with wife Beatrice\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578189\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"San Francisco City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-400x533.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-1180x1573.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105.jpeg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I work a few blocks from here at at St. Anthony's. I mean, I knew this would happen, but once it becomes reality, I just have chills. I've been dating someone for five months. The conversation about the future changes. And he's my strongest relationship so far, so for this to happen in the country at large, it just feels really personal.\" --\u003cstrong> Karl Robillard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\""It's amazing," said Jackie Omotalade, who lives in the Mission District (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"It's amazing,\" said Jackie Omotalade, who lives in the Mission District. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I can go get married in Alabama now. It's just amazing to think about. I never thought I'd be able to do that in a true red state.\" \u003cstrong>- Jackie Omotalade\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578391\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-800x394.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Mendleson and David Varela have been together four years. When they heard the news this morning, they got engaged (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-800x394.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-400x197.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-1440x710.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-1180x582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-960x473.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2.jpg 1826w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Mendleson and David Varela have been together four years. When they heard the news this morning, they got engaged. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm Gary Mendleson, soon to be Mendleson-Varela. Or the other way around, we haven't decided. We just got engaged this morning after it was announced!\" \u003cstrong>- Gary Mendleson, right\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578462\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Alex Morrison from Berkeley is thrilled, but says there is more work to be done (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-1440x1080.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Morrison from Berkeley is thrilled, but says there is more work to be done (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We've got to work on the racism and homophobia in this country. There are going to be hate crimes in other places in reaction to this. We're insulated in the Bay Area.\" -- \u003cstrong>Alex Morrison \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578630\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters in Berkeley wave a sign opposing same-sex marriage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters in Berkeley wave a sign opposing same-sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not everyone was excited about the decision. Protesters were spotted standing on the Berkeley pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80, waving signs opposing same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also caught up with Californians in Washington, D.C., who went to the Supreme Court after the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-800x903.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Neese attends UC Santa Cruz.\" width=\"800\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-800x903.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-400x451.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-1440x1625.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-1180x1331.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-960x1083.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Neese attends UC Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(Rachael Bale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was really nervous because if they kept the ban I wouldn't be able to get married, so it was really crucial that this was going to happen. My roommate actually sent me a text that said 'marriage is happening.' I got really excited and then I just stared at my screen to be sure it was true. And then I left work. I told everyone I was leaving and I rushed over here, and I still can't even believe it happened. I'm still in a little bit of a shock, I haven't gotten my full cry on, but I will later.\" \u003cstrong>-- Nick Neese from Santa Cruz\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578456\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Ashelen Vicuña from Stockton at the U.S. Supreme Court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashelen Vicuña from Stockton at the U.S. Supreme Court. \u003ccite>(Rachael Bale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm here supporting a great ruling that should have been passed years and years ago and we still have a long way to go, especially with LGBTQ, but at least it's a good step forward. The 5-4 is a little discouraging, I wish it was more but we'll take what we can get and hope that we can continue fighting for even more equality broadening.\" -- \u003cstrong>Ashelen Vicuña from Stockton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jeremy Raff, Deborah Svoboda, Bryan Goebel, Nicole Reinert and Rachael Bale contributed to this report. Felix Berzabal shot video.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Starting at 7 a.m. thousands of people poured out into the streets to celebrate -- and some to protest -- the Supreme Court's decision to overturn same-sex marriage bans on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578909\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Trans March began in Dolores Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15858_7-qut1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trans March began in Dolores Park. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people walked from Dolores Park at San Francisco's Trans March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three children march with their mother.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15857_8-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three children march with their mother. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sabina, Amia and Nevavah shout during the Trans March. Their mom says that transgender equality is an important issue in their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578964\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The party continues after the Trans March.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15864_5-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The party continues after the Trans March. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A group takes a cable car downtown after the Trans March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17th and Market was electric as the crowd began to swell for the night's festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6865.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578845 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6865-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tourists joined locals in celebrating the Supreme Court's decision (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists joined locals in celebrating the Supreme Court's decision. From left: Gina DeNoble, Jennifer Bunnell, Rachel Cortes, and Matthew Taylor (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're on a gay road trip through California. We just came out of Yosemite with no cell reception and were like woah, marriage equality! We were looking at bears yesterday. This is awesome!\" -- \u003cstrong>Matthew Taylor (far right), from Australia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6944.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578851 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6944-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Gaylor had an ecstatic message for everyone within earshot (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Gaylor had an ecstatic message for everyone within earshot (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Love, peace, happiness, joy, multiple organisms, and equality! For all 50 states, and all of humanity!\" \u003cstrong>– Walter Gaylord\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6922-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"These two friends are visiting from San Diego (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two friends are visiting from San Diego (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's about damn time, America! But I'm afraid this will make hateful people worse. I'm worried you will see more protesters than usual at the pride parade. \u003cstrong>-- Maurice Egan (right) and Marco Bullock from San Diego\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6915.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578859 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6915-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Cacari Stone and Roberta Duran are visiting from New Mexico (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Cacari Stone and Roberta Duran are visiting from New Mexico (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're part of the Sandoval 64 -- we were married in 2004 when our county clerk issued marriage licenses for a short time. We were in limbo until last winter. I can't believe we're seeing this in our lifetime. But it's a sweet sorrow today because with the funeral in Charleston -- we're still killing people if you're visibly gay or black.\" \u003cstrong>-- Lisa Cacari Stone (left) and partner of 20 years Roberta Duran, from New Mexico.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Kendell, who leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights, has been at the forefront of this political and legal movement. She spoke to KQED's Tara Siler, \"I want to harness this momentum. Economic inequality still festers, racism is still corrosive and in so many places in this country. LGBT people are in every community and we are impacted by inequality.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212158991&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212158991'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6888.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578855 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_6888-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Some Castro dignitaries joined the celebration (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Castro dignitaries joined the celebration (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm the creator of the rainbow flag-- Google it! \u003cstrong>-- Gilbert Baker\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I began the day by weeping,” Cleve Jones, AIDS activist and former adviser to Harvey Milk, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/26/cleve-jones-marriage-equality-is-an-extraordinary-victory-for-everybody\" target=\"_blank\">told KQED's Tara Siler\u003c/a>. \"I got up at 7:02 a.m. and turned on the computer and totally lost it. I’m 60 years old and I did not think I would live to see this day. I’m so very grateful to be alive, but I also remember all of my wonderful friends and comrades who didn’t live long enough to see this day. So they’re very much with me and my thoughts, and they’ll be with us tonight as we party and dance on Castro Street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212155511&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212155511'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-- Earlier --\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall Friday morning after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/26/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans\u003c/a> on same-sex marriage nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578256\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-800x293.jpg\" alt=\"Elected officials spoke at a press conference outside San Francisco City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-800x293.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-400x146.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-1440x527.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-1180x432.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan-960x351.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/presser-pan.jpg 1640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elected officials spoke at a press conference outside San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"What a wonderful day,\" said San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera. Reflecting on \"where we were 11 years ago, and the challenges we knew we were going to face,\" Herrera said, \"We've had a lot of ups, we've had some downs. But all of us collectively never ever wavered in doing what was right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera added that he believes there is more work to be done to end discriminatory practices against same-sex couples. \"This is another brick in the wall of equality,\" he said. \"But there is still discrimination we have to fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578379\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578379 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"“Today, San Francisco’s values become America’s values,” said State Senator Mark Leno (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3432-e1435347100202-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Today, San Francisco’s values become America’s values,” said state Sen. Mark Leno. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mark Leno hailed the U.S. Supreme Court decision as a milestone, saying, \"Today, San Francisco's values become America's values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he echoed the sentiment that there is more to be done. \"How can you get married this morning and get fired this afternoon, because of the gender of your spouse?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Time and time again, this community has said, 'Hell no, we're not going anywhere,' \" said Supervisor Scott Wiener. \"Today we win again. It's a giant step forward, but our work isn't done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos linked the battle for marriage equality to broader social justice issues. \"Forty percent of our homeless are queer,\" he said. \"It's not just legal equality, but socioeconomic equality for everyone in the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10578382 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing in front of City Hall Friday, was mayor in 2004 when he ordered the San Francisco county clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses, which was against state law (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/IMG_3494-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing in front of City Hall Friday, was mayor in 2004 when he ordered the San Francisco county clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses, which was against state law (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Today is the antidote to cynicism,\" said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had it not been for all of you and millions and millions of conversations that were held and won, there would be no Supreme Court decision like the one held today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee praised the decision. “Never have we been more committed, and more united, as a city and a nation, behind marriage equality in our country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, same-sex couples were up early to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15780_image1-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They're vintage shirts, from 2004. In 2000, at our first marriage, the minister refused to sign any marriage licenses, gay or straight, until we could all get married. (It was) at the Unitarian Church on Franklin where we first met. We've been together 35 years. Over time you become less of just one person and more of a couple. And the communication develops.\" \u003cstrong> -- Don Williams (left) and David Jones\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Beatrice and Jennifer Deavers were spotted waiting outside Orphan Andy's restaurant, with their 1-year-old daughter. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-1440x1080.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15785_IMG_1508.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatrice and Jennifer Deavers were spotted waiting outside Orphan Andy's restaurant, with their 1-year-old daughter. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It's eight years living in the closet, it's having to deliver in D.C. because I couldn't be in Virginia because we couldn't both be on the birth certificate of my daughter. A lot of shackles have been opened up and released today, you know? I now will never, ever doubt whether or not I should hold my wife's hand when I walk down the sidewalk in any street, across this nation. It's a big deal, it's a big deal. I don't think I've actually processed everything that's been happening just in the last few hours when this got released. I'm thankful to those little interns that were running back and forth across the marble steps of the Supreme Court to deliver this news. They have no idea what they've probably just did for all of us, so it was great. \" \u003cstrong>-- Jennifer Deavers with wife Beatrice\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578189\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"San Francisco City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-400x533.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-1180x1573.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15778_image1-e1435336525105.jpeg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I work a few blocks from here at at St. Anthony's. I mean, I knew this would happen, but once it becomes reality, I just have chills. I've been dating someone for five months. The conversation about the future changes. And he's my strongest relationship so far, so for this to happen in the country at large, it just feels really personal.\" --\u003cstrong> Karl Robillard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\""It's amazing," said Jackie Omotalade, who lives in the Mission District (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Omotalade-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"It's amazing,\" said Jackie Omotalade, who lives in the Mission District. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I can go get married in Alabama now. It's just amazing to think about. I never thought I'd be able to do that in a true red state.\" \u003cstrong>- Jackie Omotalade\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578391\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-800x394.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Mendleson and David Varela have been together four years. When they heard the news this morning, they got engaged (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-800x394.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-400x197.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-1440x710.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-1180x582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2-960x473.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Varella-big_2.jpg 1826w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Mendleson and David Varela have been together four years. When they heard the news this morning, they got engaged. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm Gary Mendleson, soon to be Mendleson-Varela. Or the other way around, we haven't decided. We just got engaged this morning after it was announced!\" \u003cstrong>- Gary Mendleson, right\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578462\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Alex Morrison from Berkeley is thrilled, but says there is more work to be done (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-1440x1080.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Alex-Morrison.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Morrison from Berkeley is thrilled, but says there is more work to be done (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We've got to work on the racism and homophobia in this country. There are going to be hate crimes in other places in reaction to this. We're insulated in the Bay Area.\" -- \u003cstrong>Alex Morrison \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578630\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters in Berkeley wave a sign opposing same-sex marriage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SSMprotesters.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters in Berkeley wave a sign opposing same-sex marriage. \u003ccite>(Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not everyone was excited about the decision. Protesters were spotted standing on the Berkeley pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80, waving signs opposing same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also caught up with Californians in Washington, D.C., who went to the Supreme Court after the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-800x903.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Neese attends UC Santa Cruz.\" width=\"800\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-800x903.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-400x451.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-1440x1625.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-1180x1331.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform-960x1083.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/15819_transform.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Neese attends UC Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(Rachael Bale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was really nervous because if they kept the ban I wouldn't be able to get married, so it was really crucial that this was going to happen. My roommate actually sent me a text that said 'marriage is happening.' I got really excited and then I just stared at my screen to be sure it was true. And then I left work. I told everyone I was leaving and I rushed over here, and I still can't even believe it happened. I'm still in a little bit of a shock, I haven't gotten my full cry on, but I will later.\" \u003cstrong>-- Nick Neese from Santa Cruz\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10578456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10578456\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Ashelen Vicuña from Stockton at the U.S. Supreme Court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15817_IMG_81547-qut-e1435350356664-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashelen Vicuña from Stockton at the U.S. Supreme Court. \u003ccite>(Rachael Bale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I'm here supporting a great ruling that should have been passed years and years ago and we still have a long way to go, especially with LGBTQ, but at least it's a good step forward. The 5-4 is a little discouraging, I wish it was more but we'll take what we can get and hope that we can continue fighting for even more equality broadening.\" -- \u003cstrong>Ashelen Vicuña from Stockton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Decision and Dissent: The U.S. Supreme Court on Same-Sex Marriage",
"title": "Decision and Dissent: The U.S. Supreme Court on Same-Sex Marriage",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that same-sex couples everywhere in the United States are entitled to the right to marry. Below are excerpts from:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The five-justice \u003ca href=\"#kennedy\">majority opinion\u003c/a> by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"#roberts\">dissenting opinion\u003c/a> of Chief Justice John Roberts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"#scalia\">dissenting opinion\u003c/a> of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The full opinion and dissenting opinions (including those of Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) are \u003ca href=\"#obergefell\">embedded below\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"kennedy\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>The opinion of the court: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity. The petitioners in these cases seek to find that liberty by marrying someone of the same sex and having their marriages deemed lawful on the same terms and conditions as marriages between persons of the opposite sex ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... The ancient origins of marriage confirm its centrality, but it has not stood in isolation from developments in law and society. The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change. That institution — even as confined to opposite-sex relations—has evolved over time. ... Indeed, changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations, often through perspectives that begin in pleas or protests and then are considered in the political sphere and the judicial process.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'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.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This dynamic can be seen in the Nation’s experiences with the rights of gays and lesbians. Until the mid-20th century, same-sex intimacy long had been condemned as immoral by the state itself in most Western nations, a belief often embodied in the criminal law. For this reason, among others, many persons did not deem homosexuals to have dignity in their own distinct identity. A truthful declaration by same-sex couples of what was in their hearts had to remain unspoken. Even when a greater awareness of the humanity and integrity of homosexual persons came in the period after World War II, the argument that gays and lesbians had a just claim to dignity was in conflict with both law and widespread social conventions. Same-sex intimacy remained a crime in many States. Gays and lesbians were prohibited from most government employment, barred from military service, excluded under immigration laws, targeted by police, and burdened in their rights to associate. ... For much of the 20th century, moreover, homosexuality was treated as an illness. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning. When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution’s central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>his analysis compels the conclusion that same-sex couples may exercise the right to marry. The four principles and traditions to be discussed demonstrate that the reasons marriage is fundamental under the Constitution apply with equal force to same-sex couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A first premise of the Court’s relevant precedents is that the right to personal choice regarding marriage is inherent in the concept of individual autonomy. ... A second principle in this Court’s jurisprudence is that the right to marry is fundamental because it supports a two-person union unlike any other in its importance to the committed individuals. ... A third basis for protecting the right to marry is that it safeguards children and families and thus draws meaning from related rights of childrearing, procreation, and education. ... Fourth and finally, this Court’s cases and the Nation’s traditions make clear that marriage is a keystone of our social order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tates have contributed to the fundamental character of marriage by placing it at the center of many facets of the legal and social order. There is no difference between same- and opposite-sex couples with respect to this principle. Yet by virtue of their exclusion from that institution, same-sex couples are denied the constellation of benefits that the States have linked to marriage. This harm results in more than just material burdens. Same-sex couples are consigned to an instability many opposite-sex couples would deem intolerable in their own lives. As the State itself makes marriage all the more precious by the significance it attaches to it, exclusion from that status has the effect of teaching that gays and lesbians are unequal in important respects. It demeans gays and lesbians for the State to lock them out of a central institution of the Nation’s society. Same-sex couples, too, may aspire to the transcendent purposes of marriage and seek fulfillment in its highest meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have seemed natural and just, but its inconsistency with the central meaning of the fundamental right to marry is now manifest. With that knowledge must come the recognition that laws excluding same-sex couples from the marriage right impose stigma and injury of the kind prohibited by our basic charter. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he right to marry is fundamental as a matter of history and tradition, but rights come not from ancient sources alone. They rise, too, from a better informed understanding of how constitutional imperatives define a liberty that remains urgent in our own era. Many who deem same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that conclusion based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises, and neither they nor their beliefs are disparaged here. But when that sincere, personal opposition becomes enacted law and public policy, the necessary consequence is to put the imprimatur of the State itself on an exclusion that soon demeans or stigmatizes those whose own liberty is then denied. Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment couples of the same-sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty. The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them. Baker v. Nelson must be and now is overruled, and the State laws challenged by Petitioners in these cases are now held invalid to the extent they exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples. ... It is of no moment whether advocates of same-sex marriage now enjoy or lack momentum in the democratic process. The issue before the Court here is the legal question whether the Constitution protects the right of same- sex couples to marry. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here may be an initial inclination in these cases to proceed with caution—to await further legislation, litigation, and debate. The respondents warn there has been insufficient democratic discourse before deciding an issue so basic as the definition of marriage. In its ruling on the cases now before this Court, the majority opinion for the [6th Circuit] Court of Appeals made a cogent argument that it would be appropriate for the respondents’ States to await further public discussion and political measures before licensing same-sex marriages. ... The dynamic of our constitutional system is that individuals need not await legislative action before asserting a fundamental right. The Nation’s courts are open to injured individuals who come to them to vindicate their own direct, personal stake in our basic charter. An individual can invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed, even if the broader public disagrees and even if the legislature refuses to act. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>o 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. \u003cem>It is so ordered.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From the dissent of Chief Justice John Roberts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>etitioners make strong arguments rooted in social policy and considerations of fairness. They contend that same-sex couples should be allowed to affirm their love and commitment through marriage, just like opposite-sex couples. That position has undeniable appeal; over the past six years, voters and legislators in eleven States and the District of Columbia have revised their laws to allow marriage between two people of the same sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise “neither force nor will but merely judgment.” ...\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">This Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise 'neither force nor will but merely judgment.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational. In short, our Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, however, the Court takes the extraordinary step of ordering every State to license and recognize same-sex marriage. Many people will rejoice at this decision, and I begrudge none their celebration. But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening. Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens -- through the democratic process -- to adopt their view. That ends today. Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law. Stealing this issue from the people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a dramatic social change that much more difficult to accept....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he majority’s driving themes are that marriage is desirable and petitioners desire it. The opinion describes the “transcendent importance” of marriage and repeatedly insists that petitioners do not seek to “demean,” “devalue,” “denigrate,” or “disrespect” the institution. Ante, at 3, 4, 6, 28. Nobody disputes those points. Indeed, the compelling personal accounts of petitioners and others like them are likely a primary reason why many Americans have changed their minds about whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. As a matter of constitutional law, however, the sincerity of petitioners’ wishes is not relevant....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y deciding this question under the Constitution, the Court removes it from the realm of democratic decision. There will be consequences to shutting down the political process on an issue of such profound public significance. Closing debate tends to close minds. People denied a voice are less likely to accept the ruling of a court on an issue that does not seem to be the sort of thing courts usually decide. As a thoughtful commentator [ed. note: Ruth Bader Ginsburg] observed about another issue, “The political process was moving . . . , not swiftly enough for advocates of quick, complete change, but majoritarian institutions were listening and acting. Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.” .... Indeed, however heartened the proponents of same-sex marriage might be on this day, it is worth acknowledging what they have lost, and lost forever: the opportunity to win the true acceptance that comes from persuading their fellow citizens of the justice of their cause. And they lose this just when the winds of change were freshening at their backs....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you are among the many Americans—of whatever sexual orientation—who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I respectfully dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"scalia\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>From the dissenting opinion by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> join the chief justice’s opinion in full. I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance. Those civil consequences -- and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences -- can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact — and the furthest extension one can even imagine — of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, every State limited marriage to one man and one woman, and no one doubted the constitutionality of doing so. That resolves these cases. When it comes to determining the meaning of a vague constitutional provision — such as “due process of law” or “equal protection of the laws” — it is unquestionable that the People who ratified that provision did not understand it to prohibit a practice that remained both universal and uncontroversial in the years after ratification. We have no basis for striking down a practice that is not expressly prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment’s text, and that bears the endorsement of a long tradition of open, widespread, and unchallenged use dating back to the Amendment’s ratification. Since there is no doubt what- ever that the People never decided to prohibit the limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples, the public debate over same-sex marriage must be allowed to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law. Buried beneath the mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages of the opinion is a candid and startling assertion: No matter what it was the People ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment protects those rights that the Judiciary, in its “reasoned judgment,” thinks the Fourteenth Amendment ought to protect. That is so because “[t]he generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions . . . . ” One would think that sentence would continue: “. . . and therefore they provided for a means by which the People could amend the Constitution,” or perhaps “. . . and therefore they left the creation of additional liberties, such as the freedom to marry someone of the same sex, to the People, through the never-ending process of legislation.” But no. What logically follows, in the majority’s judge-empowering estimation, is: “and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.” The “we,” needless to say, is the nine of us. “History and tradition guide and discipline [our] inquiry but do not set its outer boundaries.” Thus, rather than focusing on the People’s understanding of “liberty”—at the time of ratification or even today—the majority focuses on four “principles and traditions” that, in the majority’s view, prohibit States from defining marriage as an institution consisting of one man and one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a naked judicial claim to legislative — indeed, super-legislative — power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so. Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent. “The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.” (Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. Expression, sure enough, is a freedom, but anyone in a long-lasting marriage will attest that that happy state constricts, rather than expands, what one can prudently say.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>ubris is sometimes defined as o’erweening pride; and pride, we know, goeth before a fall. The Judiciary is the “least dangerous” of the federal branches because it has “neither Force nor Will, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm” and the States, “even for the efficacy of its judgments.”26 With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them—with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the “reasoned judgment” of a bare majority of this Court—we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"obergefell\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/269769826/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_69264\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The four principles and traditions to be discussed demonstrate that the reasons marriage is fundamental under the Constitution apply with equal force to same-sex couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A first premise of the Court’s relevant precedents is that the right to personal choice regarding marriage is inherent in the concept of individual autonomy. ... A second principle in this Court’s jurisprudence is that the right to marry is fundamental because it supports a two-person union unlike any other in its importance to the committed individuals. ... A third basis for protecting the right to marry is that it safeguards children and families and thus draws meaning from related rights of childrearing, procreation, and education. ... Fourth and finally, this Court’s cases and the Nation’s traditions make clear that marriage is a keystone of our social order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tates have contributed to the fundamental character of marriage by placing it at the center of many facets of the legal and social order. There is no difference between same- and opposite-sex couples with respect to this principle. Yet by virtue of their exclusion from that institution, same-sex couples are denied the constellation of benefits that the States have linked to marriage. This harm results in more than just material burdens. Same-sex couples are consigned to an instability many opposite-sex couples would deem intolerable in their own lives. As the State itself makes marriage all the more precious by the significance it attaches to it, exclusion from that status has the effect of teaching that gays and lesbians are unequal in important respects. It demeans gays and lesbians for the State to lock them out of a central institution of the Nation’s society. Same-sex couples, too, may aspire to the transcendent purposes of marriage and seek fulfillment in its highest meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have seemed natural and just, but its inconsistency with the central meaning of the fundamental right to marry is now manifest. With that knowledge must come the recognition that laws excluding same-sex couples from the marriage right impose stigma and injury of the kind prohibited by our basic charter. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he right to marry is fundamental as a matter of history and tradition, but rights come not from ancient sources alone. They rise, too, from a better informed understanding of how constitutional imperatives define a liberty that remains urgent in our own era. Many who deem same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that conclusion based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises, and neither they nor their beliefs are disparaged here. But when that sincere, personal opposition becomes enacted law and public policy, the necessary consequence is to put the imprimatur of the State itself on an exclusion that soon demeans or stigmatizes those whose own liberty is then denied. Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment couples of the same-sex may not be deprived of that right and that liberty. The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them. Baker v. Nelson must be and now is overruled, and the State laws challenged by Petitioners in these cases are now held invalid to the extent they exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples. ... It is of no moment whether advocates of same-sex marriage now enjoy or lack momentum in the democratic process. The issue before the Court here is the legal question whether the Constitution protects the right of same- sex couples to marry. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here may be an initial inclination in these cases to proceed with caution—to await further legislation, litigation, and debate. The respondents warn there has been insufficient democratic discourse before deciding an issue so basic as the definition of marriage. In its ruling on the cases now before this Court, the majority opinion for the [6th Circuit] Court of Appeals made a cogent argument that it would be appropriate for the respondents’ States to await further public discussion and political measures before licensing same-sex marriages. ... The dynamic of our constitutional system is that individuals need not await legislative action before asserting a fundamental right. The Nation’s courts are open to injured individuals who come to them to vindicate their own direct, personal stake in our basic charter. An individual can invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed, even if the broader public disagrees and even if the legislature refuses to act. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>o 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. \u003cem>It is so ordered.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From the dissent of Chief Justice John Roberts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>etitioners make strong arguments rooted in social policy and considerations of fairness. They contend that same-sex couples should be allowed to affirm their love and commitment through marriage, just like opposite-sex couples. That position has undeniable appeal; over the past six years, voters and legislators in eleven States and the District of Columbia have revised their laws to allow marriage between two people of the same sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise “neither force nor will but merely judgment.” ...\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">This Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise 'neither force nor will but merely judgment.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational. In short, our Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, however, the Court takes the extraordinary step of ordering every State to license and recognize same-sex marriage. Many people will rejoice at this decision, and I begrudge none their celebration. But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening. Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens -- through the democratic process -- to adopt their view. That ends today. Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law. Stealing this issue from the people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a dramatic social change that much more difficult to accept....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he majority’s driving themes are that marriage is desirable and petitioners desire it. The opinion describes the “transcendent importance” of marriage and repeatedly insists that petitioners do not seek to “demean,” “devalue,” “denigrate,” or “disrespect” the institution. Ante, at 3, 4, 6, 28. Nobody disputes those points. Indeed, the compelling personal accounts of petitioners and others like them are likely a primary reason why many Americans have changed their minds about whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. As a matter of constitutional law, however, the sincerity of petitioners’ wishes is not relevant....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y deciding this question under the Constitution, the Court removes it from the realm of democratic decision. There will be consequences to shutting down the political process on an issue of such profound public significance. Closing debate tends to close minds. People denied a voice are less likely to accept the ruling of a court on an issue that does not seem to be the sort of thing courts usually decide. As a thoughtful commentator [ed. note: Ruth Bader Ginsburg] observed about another issue, “The political process was moving . . . , not swiftly enough for advocates of quick, complete change, but majoritarian institutions were listening and acting. Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.” .... Indeed, however heartened the proponents of same-sex marriage might be on this day, it is worth acknowledging what they have lost, and lost forever: the opportunity to win the true acceptance that comes from persuading their fellow citizens of the justice of their cause. And they lose this just when the winds of change were freshening at their backs....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you are among the many Americans—of whatever sexual orientation—who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I respectfully dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"scalia\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>From the dissenting opinion by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> join the chief justice’s opinion in full. I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance. Those civil consequences -- and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences -- can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact — and the furthest extension one can even imagine — of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, every State limited marriage to one man and one woman, and no one doubted the constitutionality of doing so. That resolves these cases. When it comes to determining the meaning of a vague constitutional provision — such as “due process of law” or “equal protection of the laws” — it is unquestionable that the People who ratified that provision did not understand it to prohibit a practice that remained both universal and uncontroversial in the years after ratification. We have no basis for striking down a practice that is not expressly prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment’s text, and that bears the endorsement of a long tradition of open, widespread, and unchallenged use dating back to the Amendment’s ratification. Since there is no doubt what- ever that the People never decided to prohibit the limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples, the public debate over same-sex marriage must be allowed to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law. Buried beneath the mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages of the opinion is a candid and startling assertion: No matter what it was the People ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment protects those rights that the Judiciary, in its “reasoned judgment,” thinks the Fourteenth Amendment ought to protect. That is so because “[t]he generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions . . . . ” One would think that sentence would continue: “. . . and therefore they provided for a means by which the People could amend the Constitution,” or perhaps “. . . and therefore they left the creation of additional liberties, such as the freedom to marry someone of the same sex, to the People, through the never-ending process of legislation.” But no. What logically follows, in the majority’s judge-empowering estimation, is: “and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.” The “we,” needless to say, is the nine of us. “History and tradition guide and discipline [our] inquiry but do not set its outer boundaries.” Thus, rather than focusing on the People’s understanding of “liberty”—at the time of ratification or even today—the majority focuses on four “principles and traditions” that, in the majority’s view, prohibit States from defining marriage as an institution consisting of one man and one woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a naked judicial claim to legislative — indeed, super-legislative — power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic. It is one thing for separate concurring or dissenting opinions to contain extravagances, even silly extravagances, of thought and expression; it is something else for the official opinion of the Court to do so. Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent. “The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.” (Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. Expression, sure enough, is a freedom, but anyone in a long-lasting marriage will attest that that happy state constricts, rather than expands, what one can prudently say.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>ubris is sometimes defined as o’erweening pride; and pride, we know, goeth before a fall. The Judiciary is the “least dangerous” of the federal branches because it has “neither Force nor Will, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm” and the States, “even for the efficacy of its judgments.”26 With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them—with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the “reasoned judgment” of a bare majority of this Court—we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"obergefell\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a throng cheered outside, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples across the United States are entitled to the right to marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 5-4 decision struck down same-sex marriage bans imposed by Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The court found that those laws violate the 14th Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law for all persons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-page majority opinion -- \u003ca href=\"#obergefell\">embedded below\u003c/a> -- by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"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.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The five-justice majority consisted of Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Chief Justice John Roberts led the dissenters, including Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. All four of the justices in the minority wrote dissenting opinions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts read his dissent from the bench. He argued that the democratic process should have been allowed to play out by allowing states to decide the question on their own. He says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"If you are among the many Americans--of whatever sexual orientation--who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today's decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not Celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The decision takes effect immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/preview-decision-cf5ce5d67ecd3fa84f6b38883d4e0e39c1d2578a.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10578398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/preview-decision-cf5ce5d67ecd3fa84f6b38883d4e0e39c1d2578a.png\" alt=\"Same-sex marriage decision map.\" width=\"742\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/preview-decision-cf5ce5d67ecd3fa84f6b38883d4e0e39c1d2578a.png 742w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/preview-decision-cf5ce5d67ecd3fa84f6b38883d4e0e39c1d2578a-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court faced \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/qp/14-00556qp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">two main questions\u003c/a> in Obergefell v. Hodges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Do same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If states can ban same-sex marriages, can states not recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states where it is legal?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The decision is the culmination of a decades-long struggle in the courts, statehouses and at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/\" target=\"_blank\">two years ago\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal law that denied a range of government benefits to legally married same-sex couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision in United States v. Windsor did not address the validity of state marriage bans, but courts across the country, with few exceptions, said its logic compelled them to invalidate state laws that prohibited gay and lesbian couples from marrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's ruling on Proposition 8 was much more narrow, applying only to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA's Williams Institute estimates that there are 390,000 married same-sex couples. The Supreme Court's landmark decision today could mean that another 70,000 couples living in the 13 states that do not currently permit them to wed would get married in the next three years, the Williams Institute estimates. There are roughly 1 million same-sex couples, married and unmarried, who live together in the United States, the institute says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stories of Love, Life Before the High Court\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 19 men and women involved in Obergefell v. Hodges call themselves \"accidental activists\" because they filed lawsuits not to legalize same-sex marriage nationally, but because of how the bans impacted their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the plaintiffs in Friday's case married in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Mansell married his husband, John, in San Francisco in 2008, before voters passed Prop. 8. In 2012, they moved to Tennessee with their two children for work. Mansell says they quickly found that their marriage wasn't recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were always concerned about whether we would have issues with doctors or with any government agencies with regard to our children or even with regard to services for my husband or for myself,\" Mansell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They joined a lawsuit against Tennessee, arguing the state should recognize their marriage. They initially won, but a federal appeals court ruled against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mansell and his family now live in Orange County. He says a victory at the highest court in the nation would teach their kids to stand up for what you believe in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212162805\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse were not planning to challenge Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage when they went to court to win the right to jointly adopt each other's children. A federal judge transformed their case into one about the right to marry, and the nurses have become celebrities in their Detroit suburb of Hazel Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been stopped multiple times at our local shopping center with people just telling their story. These are people's lives that we've changed,\" DeBoer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They live with their four adopted children, ages 2 to 6, and a foster child. Each woman has adopted two kids, but Michigan ties joint adoption to marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We decided that not doing anything would do more harm to our children than standing up and saying we're going to fight,\" DeBoer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A middle-of-the night trip to the emergency room, with her 9-month-old son coughing and laboring to breathe, gave Pam Yorksmith her latest reminder of why she took up the fight for same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before baby Orion could be treated for croup, the hospital had to call his birth mother — Yorksmith's wife, Nicole — \"to get permission to treat my child,\" Yorksmith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Yorksmiths started their family together through artificial insemination, hospital records and Orion's birth certificate don't list Pam Yorksmith as a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Next Battles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to carve out religious exemptions for people and institutions that object to same-sex marriage are also under attack. 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