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April 28, 2015

Supreme Court Hears Historic Same-Sex Marriage Case 
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a historic case that
could legalize same-sex marriage across the United States. Same-sex
couples can now wed in 36 states and Washington, D.C. But the case under
consideration today could establish the constitutional right to marriage
equality in all 50 states. The plaintiff in the case, Jim Obergefell,
married his longtime partner John Arthur in Maryland when Arthur was
dying of ALS. Their home state of Ohio has refused to recognize their
marriage on Arthur's death certificate, a right Obergefell said is worth
fighting for.

Jim Obergefell: "The state of Ohio wants nothing more than to take
John's last official record as a person and to change it so that it's
wrong. They want to erase the fact that John and I were legally married.
They want to erase the official record of our marriage, of me as John's
spouse. There's no way I would ever stop fighting for that."

 

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