Hey! Maybe this will finally be the modernizing draw that the Episcopal church needs to grow. We don’t have a jumbo-tron or an electrified praise band but as long as one of you is baptized we will marry you! :x
The White House is lit up in rainbow colors tonight. 
Hey if any of y’all’s local magistrates decide to get all high and mighty with the religious principles, come on over to my neck of the woods. I’m already hosting one same-sex marriage this year. I may as well get a mail-order license and take all comers!
How companies are celebrating the decision by adding rainbows to their logos, etc., in interesting ways – http://www.thegailygrind.com/2015/06/26/heres-how-your-favorite-brands-are-reacting-to-todays-historic-gay-marriage-decision/
Ha! Tide and Maker’s Mark!
@fireandrain thanks for sharing.
For those of you who are a generation or two above me, did you think when you were growing up that you’d see this day? (If it was something that was even on your radar.) Growing up in the 90s and 00s, I knew it was only a matter of time. I can’t wrap my head around what it would’ve been like to not know whether or not it WOULD happen.
Dang! Someone’s gonna have to build a spreadsheet of all the companies that people need to boycott. :-w
Tanqueray won my eternal loyalty by hosting the first Boston-> New York Aids Ride over 20 years ago. These things do matter.
I’m sure someone will. We’ll just have to show those companies a little extra love with all our icky-scary gay dollars!
Just want to say that I have a lot of very conservative friends that I have reconnected with via social media, and some of them are very religious. All of them are rejoicing about this decision, which surprises me, and also brings tears to my eyes.
Re #125: As someone who came of age in the 1980s, I’ve been waiting for this day since back then. There were definitely dreams of marriage equality back then, made especially urgent by the AIDS crisis and end-of-life decisions being made by people other than life-long partners. So, yes, it was very much on people’s minds back then.
Re#125. I graduated from hs in 1988 and lived in SF Bay Area from 1990-2007. I saw communities devastated by AID and economic disasters. It was a beautiful day when friends got married under Gavin Newsom’s radical declaration. when my home state of Indiana was embroiled in controversy earlier this year, it was an isolating experience even as an ally. Today feels like a healing day. My friends , family and perfect strangers can rejoice. It was funy today at work, as a few were so upset they needed to leave work early and other smiled all day.
roman I grew up in the 70’s (b58) and back then I never imagined we would see this. It was not until my daughter and her friends were growing up that I realized this day would come. I remember being so proud of her and her friends how accepting they were of their friends that were gay and how courageous I thought the kids were that they refused to hide who they were. I knew that her generation would be a big reason for the change.
Today I received a call from my D to tell me about the decision and 5 minutes later another call from my 82 year old mom. You kids have done a wonderful thing and brought the majority of us old folk with you.
Thanks to the last few posts. I didn’t think about how the AIDS epidemic played into it… though I should’ve since I lost a great uncle to AIDS and his partner wasn’t allowed to see him on his deathbed. (This was before I was born so I don’t know the details.) My grandmother (his sister) became an activist after that and hasn’t stopped for 30 years.
Like many others on here, I am incredibly proud of my generation. No matter where on the political or religious spectrum one falls, the odds are very good that someone in my generation will support marriage equality. However, I also absolutely recognize that it was those a generation or two above us that actually MADE it happen by being the lawyers, the plaintiffs, and financial/political backers.
For those of us who remember the activism of Harvey Milk and others, its been way too long of a wait.
Dammit, you people. I’m only on page 3 and I’ve had to like pretty much every post! :-*
It’s a beautiful day, a beautiful week.
Growing up in the 50’s, 60’s and to the mid 70’s it really wasn’t on anyone’s radar. Rock ‘n’ roll, civil rights, the Vietnam war and women’s rights were.
@annoyingdad I know that’s not true. It was on plenty of people’s radars. I was just asking for personal experiences
Our Supreme Court has had a terrific, banner week, in my opinion.
“Dang! Someone’s gonna have to build a spreadsheet of all the companies that people need to boycott”
Dang. The boycotters will hafta survive on Chick-Fil-A for the rest of their lives…
Here’s one picture of the White House lit up:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-lit-pride-colors-celebrate-sex-marriage/story?id=32063610