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Ice Cream TODAY 12 noon-1 PM to Celebrate Marriage Equality Decisions!


Let’s celebrate Wednesday’s two historic US Supreme Court decisions about marriage for gay and lesbian couples! Join the MCC Diversity Council for ice cream today, Thursday, June 27, from 12 noon to 1 PM in the first floor Atrium of the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Bldg. 3).

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is “unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment,” meaning that gay and lesbian couples legally married in the states which recognize their marriages now benefit from the same federal rights and privileges of marriage as heterosexual married couples (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf).

In the second decision, in Hollingsworth et al. v. Perry et al., the court ruled the “petitioners did not have standing to appeal the District Court’s order” (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf). According to the Huffington Post, this means “the traditional marriage activists who put Proposition 8 on California ballots in 2008 did not have the constitutional authority, or standing, to defend the law in federal courts after the state refused to appeal its loss at trial,” so marriage for gay and lesbian couples again becomes legal in California (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/supreme-court-prop-8_n_3434854.html).

The first decision directly affects some of our MCC colleagues and students, so please join us in celebration today!

Debbie Mohr
Diversity Council (ETS: Libraries)
06/27/2013