Sing me the chords that you know so well

[sovay]

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

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

It is so ordered.

Comments

[kore]

I just posted that too! That was the part that made me REALLY start bawling. Wow.

[sovay]

I just posted that too!

Here; Sirs Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen celebrate with Stonewall T-shirts and glitter.

[kore]

OH MAN. I have been bawling ever since I heard, but yeah, 'happy tears,' which I usually think is kind of a dumb expression. But these tears are very happy!

[tam_nonlinear]

I'm going to have a chapped face by the end of today, from so many tears (mostly good).

[kore]

This sounds so soppy but I actually PRINTED OUT the opinion pdf (it was real! it really happened! here's proof!) and there are already little blurry spots on the crummy laser-printed ink.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Two wonderful days in a row. We've been giddy around here!

[gwynnega]

Indeed.

[sovay]

Indeed.

I have been spamming people with Sirs Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen.

[sovay]

Two wonderful days in a row. We've been giddy around here!

. . . I'm under a rock. What happened yesterday?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Obamacare upheld!

[sovay]

Obamacare upheld!

Great!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Glorious!

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Somehow, after hearing the news a thousand times between yesterday and today, it's your post that gets the tears brimming.

Such a sense of relief at a right ruling.

[sovay]

Such a sense of relief at a right ruling.

Yes. It is not the be-all and end-all of queer rights, and as far as the question of marriage is concerned, I think I am still waiting for legal support for multiple-person unions (because I know several, and they've all had to work it out for themselves in the interstices of or outside the laws), but it really does matter.