{"id":128772,"date":"2015-06-27T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=128772"},"modified":"2015-06-27T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T11:00:42","slug":"historic-gay-marriage-ruling-stirs-emotion-across-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=128772","title":{"rendered":"Historic Gay Marriage ruling stirs emotion across US"},"content":{"rendered":"

The celebration began early and built throughout the day in San Francisco, a city at the vanguard of the fight for gay rights.<\/p>\n

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Workers draped a giant rainbow flag over the front door of City Hall, where then-Mayor Gavin Newsom ignited a legal challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban 11 years ago by ordering clerks to marry a gay couple in defiance of state law.<\/p>\n

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Newsom, who is now California’s lieutenant governor, reminisced at a news conference about that Valentine’s Day when he hoped that his action would spark a legal challenge.<\/p>\n

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“We were hoping to humanize the issue,” Newsom said of the first marriage performed at City Hall on Feb. 14, 2004.<\/p>\n

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Newsom said he’s couldn’t imagine then that gay marriage would be legalized nationwide.<\/p>\n

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Judge Tonya Parker, left, with the 116th District Court signs a marriage license for Kenneth Denson, center, who looks for a hi-five from his newly married husband Gabriel Mendez, right, after the two were married in a private ceremony in Judge Parkers chambers Friday, June 26, 2015, in Dallas. Same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a crowning victory to the gay rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden. (AP Photo\/Tony Gutierrez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I’d like to say I expected this day,” he said. “I didn’t. We hit a lot of rough patches along the way.”<\/p>\n

A small number of same-sex marriage opponents protested the Supreme Court decision by unfurling a banner on a freeway overpass across the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley.<\/p>\n

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Arkansas<\/p>\n

The judge who struck down Arkansas’ gay-marriage ban last year presided over one of the state’s first same-sex weddings after the Supreme Court’s historic ruling.<\/p>\n

Pulaski County Judge Chris Piazza married two men in a brief ceremony in his Little Rock courtroom. He said it was the only same-sex wedding he planned to conduct.<\/p>\n

“I looked at their faces and realized how much this meant to them,” Piazza said.<\/p>\n

The couple, Tony Chiaro, 73, and Earnie Matheson, 65, have been together 26 years. They said they sought out Piazza because of his ruling last year.<\/p>\n

“We could have gone off and done it somewhere else … but it meant so much to do it here,” Matheson said.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court’s ruling comes a little over a year after Piazza struck down a 2004 voter-approved amendment and an earlier state law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n

More than 500 couples were married in the week following Piazza’s ruling before it was suspended by the state Supreme Court pending a review.<\/p>\n

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Source: abcnews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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