In refusing to go to court for a stay, the attorney general acknowledged reality: The case is over.
"Mary L. Bonauto" is an United States/American Attorneys in the United States/lawyer and civil rights advocate who has worked to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and has been referred to by US Representative Barney Frank as "our Thurgood Marshall."
She began working with the Massachusetts-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) organization in 1990. A resident of Portland, Maine, Bonauto was one of the leaders who both worked with the Maine legislature to pass a Same-sex marriage/marriage equality law and to defend it at the ballot in a narrow loss during the 2009 election campaign.
More Mary Bonauto on Wikipedia.Gay people should have the right to enter into a legal, governmental marriage on the exact same terms that everyone else can.
Ultimately, people need to understand people like Mike and Jim, who have been dedicated to one another for over two decades and are raising a son, are decent people, working hard and doing the best they can by their family.
They've already been married and I think many people find it degrading to pretend that their marriage doesn't exist, ... They shouldn't have to forfeit their marriage license at the Connecticut border.
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