Tuesday, August 16, 2016

After Same-Sex Marriage Victory, Jim Obergefell Looks Ahead To Remaining LGBT Battles

On June 26 of last year, Jim Obergefell’s hard-to-pronounce last name was on the lips of millions of Americans when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, extending the right to marry to same sex couples across the country.

The decisive victory was cause for much celebration, especially for advocates in the LGBT community like Obergefell, who filed the suit two years earlier so that he could be named on his dying husband’s death certificate in Ohio. And celebrate Obergefell did. In the past year, he has officiated numerous weddings and been honored by President Obama and at countless other events and ceremonies....
https://thinkprogress.org/jim-obergefell-dnc-be4c1bc4c0ca#.tam39atxi



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