The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a historic case that could legalize same-sex marriage across the United States. Same-sex couples can now wed in 36 states and Washington, D.C. But the case under consideration today could establish the constitutional right to marriage equality in all 50 states. The plaintiff in the case, Jim Obergefell, married his longtime partner John Arthur in Maryland when Arthur was dying of ALS. Their home state of Ohio has refused to recognize their marriage on Arthur’s death certificate, a right Obergefell said is worth fighting for.
Jim Obergefell: “The state of Ohio wants nothing more than to take John’s last official record as a person and to change it so that it’s wrong. They want to erase the fact that John and I were legally married. They want to erase the official record of our marriage, of me as John’s spouse. There’s no way I would ever stop fighting for that.”
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