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Hooray. Who can deny that the women in this photo, Phyllis Siegel and Connie Kopelov, deserve as much as any two people who ever loved one another to have their love formally recognized? Could there be a better Exhibit A for why any two adults should have the right to marry regardless of their sexual preference?
In many respects, gay rights has gone mainstream. But, really, it's when any two gay people could inspire the same level of "that's so wonderful" -- just like when a black family doesn't have to have the Huxtable pedigree to be "approved" by neighbors, or a black male doesn't have to speak like Grant Hill or the Prez in order to still be recognized as intellectually a G -- then that will be a whole new level of equality. I recognize some images are just more potentially iconic than others, and it's often too complicated, even uncouth, to sort through the DNA of our cultural memes to figure out exactly why. I'm happy to let this be the case here. So, at the risk of contradicting myself, I'll just posit again: could there be a better Exhibit A for why any two adults should have the right to marry regardless of their sexual preference?
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