Meet The First Same-Sex Couple To Be Legally Married In Minnesota

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/meet-the-first-same-sex-couple-to-be-legally-married-in-minn

WASHINGTON — The wedding ceremony of Margaret Miles and Cathy ten Broeke began at Minneapolis City Hall at 11:38 p.m. July 31, 22 minutes before the city’s mayor, R.T. Rybak, could legally marry the women.

Rybak opened City Hall for midnight weddings to usher in the first day that Minnesota’s marriage equality law took effect. He personally married the women moments after midnight.

The moment — an hour after Rhode Island’s marriage equality law took effect — made the state the 13th in the country, plus D.C., to allow same-sex couples to marry. It also marked a changed city in the long fight of gay and lesbian couples for legal recognition of their relationships.

Forty-three years ago, Richard Baker and James Michael McConnell were denied a marriage license in Minneapolis because they were both men. They sued to force the county to allow them to marry, but lost in an unceremonious dismissal of their appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.

As the last minutes of Wednesday edged into Thursday, with the choir singing and City Hall filled with joyous onlookers, their cause saw its decades-delayed resolution.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Congratulations to them! n/t

[Dwayne Hicks]

2. Congratulations!!

May they be together forever!

[pnwmom]

3. What a beautiful spot! Congratulations to them and their little boy! n/t

[MNBrewer]

6. That's Minneapolis City Hall

I think dozens of couples got married last night, there and across MN.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/217858401.html

[B Calm]

19. The Minneapolis City Hall has stained glass windows?

[MNBrewer]

20. Yeah

It's a beautiful victorian era building.

http://www.municipalbuildingcommission.org/Event_Photo_Gallery.html

[winterpark]

4. Wonderful for them. Hopefully in the not too far future this will be the norm in all

50 of our united states of America if we can get all those old bigoted farts to die off soon. (That's the problem with medicare, it keeps them alive too long).

Off topic, I really like that red dress.

[rurallib]

5. tip of the hat to Mayor Rybek

for opening city hall for opening city hall

[Iggo]

7. Ha!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Note the colored lights for the rainbow....

I have a feeling that's going to become common.

Either that or a big prism flood.

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9. Minneapolis really did a good job with the ceremonies.

[proReality]

10. This is beautiful!

How can anyone hate to see happy people sharing their lives?! Those who hate must be extremely unhappy, miserable people.

[shenmue]

11. Mazel tov!

[Lithos]

12. Nice..

They look a lot alike to me - I will attribute that to their being together a long time. (Old married couples suffer the same thing)

Congrats and many wishes to their happiness! Long time coming!

L-

[sheshe2]

13. Now that's just beautiful!

Thanks for posting GC.

[felix_numinous]

14. Very cool!

Thanks for sharing, how beautiful

[roamer65]

15. 13th state to legalize equals no chance of federal constitutional...

amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

No chance of getting 38 states to ratify now.

IMHO, very important milestone. Good on 'ya, Minnesota!

[the_sly_pig]

16. And in this weeks local rag....

another anti-gay marriage letter to the editor rant of a profound christian that knows the mind of God.

Regarding the nuptials, may your days be filled with health and happiness.

[blackspade]

17. A beautiful couple

[Mr_Patriot]

21. Reform

Mazeltov!

With the new change in marriage/property law, Minnesota has gotten thousands of new tourists and others who seek to get married. This has brought in MILLIONS of dollars in new revenue to the state.

How smart of people there to enact this much needed law.

[progressoid]

22. beautiful!

[Warren DeMontague]

23. AWESOME.

Congrats!

[mythology]

24. I'm sure that those seemingly happy smiles

are really just like the way a crocodile smiles right before they bite, because as we all know, same sex marriage is going to lead to the downfall of society, the end of days, and hellfire and brimstone. Either that or the Pat Robertsons of the world are hateful idiots. Which ever seems more likely.

I'm glad that more states are coming around to allowing gay marriage, but there are a lot of states left to go, some of which will unfortunately need federal intervention to allow it.