"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."
We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
-- Rumi
(photos from NY Times/Simone White, NY Times, O-lan Jones, Richard Kelly Jang, NY Times, eonline, goosepimplyallover, Sean Rockoff, White House)
Yes, yes, yes. The perfect post.
Posted by: Barbara | June 27, 2015 at 11:23 AM