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Miracles

By The Daily Dish
Jun 16 2008, 8:01 AM ET

As of this minute, marriage is now legal for all couples in California. A quote for the moment:

"The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs."

That's Hannah Arendt in Dissent in 1959. Congrats to all my brothers and sisters in California now able to do what no heterosexual has ever doubted they could do: marry the one they love.



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