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<blockquote data-quote="dokken" data-source="post: 2825" data-attributes="member: 100"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>I would like to take this time to thank all of my Gone Gambling friends who have been there for me for the past 14 years and counting. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>This month we will be celebrating our independence, freedom, and equal rights for all, including ethnicity, men, women, Hispanics, blacks, and the LBGT community, but last night I went to sleep as a person who was not equal to my peers. Today I woke up with the full equal rights as my peers, and I wish to thank the SCOTUS for making that happen.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>• 239 years ago: We fought for independence and freedom, and <strong>WE WON</strong>.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>• 150 years ago: we fought against slavery, and <strong>WE WON</strong>.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>• 95 years ago: We fought for equal rights for women, and <strong>WE WON</strong>.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>• 70 years ago: We fought against religious persecution and genocide, and <strong>WE WON</strong>.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>• 50 years ago: We fought for civil rights for blacks, and <strong>WE WON</strong>.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>• 10 years ago: We began the fight for marriage equality, and guess what.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em></em></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">WE WON -- WE WON -- WE WON</span></strong></p><p></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>Supreme Court’s Justice Kennedy’s closing paragraph on the rights of same sex couples to marry was heartwarming. I thought that I would end up dying alone and never be given the chance to marry and spend the rest of my life with a man that I love.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, 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 after 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.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>It is so ordered.”</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dokken, post: 2825, member: 100"] [FONT=Georgia][I]I would like to take this time to thank all of my Gone Gambling friends who have been there for me for the past 14 years and counting. This month we will be celebrating our independence, freedom, and equal rights for all, including ethnicity, men, women, Hispanics, blacks, and the LBGT community, but last night I went to sleep as a person who was not equal to my peers. Today I woke up with the full equal rights as my peers, and I wish to thank the SCOTUS for making that happen. • 239 years ago: We fought for independence and freedom, and [B]WE WON[/B]. • 150 years ago: we fought against slavery, and [B]WE WON[/B]. • 95 years ago: We fought for equal rights for women, and [B]WE WON[/B]. • 70 years ago: We fought against religious persecution and genocide, and [B]WE WON[/B]. • 50 years ago: We fought for civil rights for blacks, and [B]WE WON[/B]. • 10 years ago: We began the fight for marriage equality, and guess what. [CENTER][B][SIZE=5]WE WON -- WE WON -- WE WON[/SIZE][/B][/CENTER] Supreme Court’s Justice Kennedy’s closing paragraph on the rights of same sex couples to marry was heartwarming. I thought that I would end up dying alone and never be given the chance to marry and spend the rest of my life with a man that I love. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, 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 after 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.”[/I][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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