john arthur is suffering from a terminal illness, lou gehrig s disease. they made their trip to the alter in a plane that had to be outfitted specially to take care of mr. arthur because he was so ill. they flew from cincinnati where they live, to the airport in anne arundel county, maryland. once they were on the ground in maryland, they got married in the plane. they flew home and back home they asked a federal court to recognize their marriage. despite the ohio state ban against marriage equality. and the amazing thing is, that the court said yes. the federal court ordered the state of ohio to recognize john and jim s marriage from maryland, the same as the state would recognize any other ohio couple s marriage if they had got married in any other state. the judge cited the doma decision for the reasoning in the case. this is not a complicated case. throughout ohio s history, ohio law s been clear, a marriage solemnized outside of ohio is valid in ohio if it is valid where it was so
john arthur is suffering from a terminal illness, lou gehrig s disease. they made their trip to the alter in a plane that had to be outfitted specially to take care of mr. arthur because he was so ill. they flew from cincinnati where they live, to the airport in anne arundel county, maryland. once they were on the ground in maryland, they got married in the plane. they flew home and back home they asked a federal court to recognize their marriage. despite the ohio state ban against marriage equality. and the amazing thing is, that the court said yes. the federal court ordered the state of ohio to recognize john and jim s marriage from maryland, the same as the state would recognize any other ohio couple s marriage if they had got married in any other state. the judge cited the doma decision for the reasoning in the case. this is not a complicated case. throughout ohio s history, ohio law s been clear, a marriage solemnized outside of ohio is valid in ohio if it is valid
in pennsylvania. how did you come to the decision to do this zm. well, if you i have to go back about a week. i was contacted by two women who were interested in inquiring about how to get a same sex marriage. and i discussed it, reviewed it with my solicitor, i have a solicitor, michael clark. i reviewed it with the county solicitor. and some of the things we looked at was the windsor case that you were discussing, the u.s. supreme court case. pennsylvania constitution. and a decision by the current attorney general in pennsylvania. and her decision not to defend doma in court. going back to the pennsylvania constitution, three things
you re the takers. you have an agenda. the homosexual agenda, the takers. i don t know. but i salute jerry brown. he s been very consistent through all of this. and he has succeeded politically. what i m curious, though, about there were so many different ways the court could have settled prop 8 this week. what they settled on was the state of california didn t defend it, therefore, didn t have standing. they could have made a much more sweeping declaration that gay marriage is legal across the country, states with legal union i guess, amanda, is there some issue with what jerry brown did was noble in a way and ended up getting gay marriage for his state but gave the court an aout to be less ambition than it did? the obama administration also decided not to defend doma which made house gop step in and perhaps led to defeat of doma because john boehner worked to defeat it. so it worked the other way on that case. there is the possibility,
balder, then married version of the same jerry brown who fought the briggs initiative in the 70s paved the way for what the supreme court did this past week. the state of california refused to defend prop 8, anti-gay marriage activists stride to step in to make the case. the supreme court ruled wednesday they didn t have standing to do so. that meant lower court s ruling stood, which meant gay marriage became legal again in california. it meant that jerry brown, now once again governor jerry brown, could order his state to be allowed what happened on friday. by virtue of the power and authority vested in me, by the state of california, i now declare you spouses for life. you know, so congresswoman schroeder, we talked about bill clinton, the complicated legacy there. jerry brown ran against bill