Today Pennsylvania, yesterday Oregon: there have been fourteen (14) consecutive victories for Gay Marriage in our courts. Soon, Florida will join the list, and people who love each other will legally marry in St. Augustine, as lovely a place as ever existed for a wedding.
Nearly 25 years ago, I was honored to represent pro bono plaintiff Mr. Duane David Rinde in Rinde v. Woodward & Lothrop, the D.C. Gay domestic partnership equal benefits case in 1989-90, for which Mr. Rinde and I won the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance award in 1990. I then was asked to write what became the first article on Gay marriage in an American Bar Association publication, in Human Rights magazine, in 1991.
As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others have said, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." And as General Kutuzov said in Tolstoy's War and Peace, "Patience and time."
The majority of Americans, and courts, and Catholics and Jews and Protestants, are with us today.
Healing is good for the soul.
Love is eternal.
Victory is sweet.
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