9 Reasons The Supreme Court Decision On Same Sex Marriage Matters
Before getting into the legal, social, and cultural reasons, let's focus on the more straightforward ones ...
Unless your phone’s been turned off, or you ignore the news cycle on principle, you may have heard that the Supreme Court just handed down a 5-4 decision in favor of recognizing homosexuals’ constitutional right to join one another in holy matrimony. This matters for a host of cultural, political, and legal reasons, but rather than dig into the minutia, let’s take a second to discuss some of the more straightforward reasons:
Andy Miller and Brian Stephens and their son, Clark …
Dr. Paul Melchert and his husband James Zimmerman and their twin boys …
Alan Roth and Brian Blais and their twins, Sela and Seth …
Jay and Bryan Leffew and their son and daughter …
Rep. Jamie Pedersen and his partner Eric Pedersen and their four children, Leif, Anders, Erik, and Trygve …
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka and their fraternal twins, Harper Grace and Gideon Scott …
Erik Hyman and Max Mutchnick and their daughters, Rose and Evan …
Kordale and Kaleb Lewis and their kids, Desmiray, Malia, and Kordale Jr., …
Bill Tamlyn and Chuck Kaltenberg and their son, Liam …
That should cover it. Congratulations to gay families everywhere.
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