At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, texts, emails, tweets, and Facebook messages were alive with activity about the Supreme Court's decisions striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act's Section 3 (the federal marriage definition that excludes homosexual marriages) and effectively leaving in place a federal court decision setting aside California's Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriages.
Same-sex couples married here in Connecticut, after the state Supreme Court's Kerrigan ruling, can now reap benefits accorded to other married couples under federal law. Same-sex marriage has returned to California. For many affected directly by the decisions or for those deeply invested in the issue of equal rights for gays and lesbians the euphoria over the weekend was palpable. And, recent polls show that a majority of the public agree with the Supreme Court's decisions on Proposition 8 and DOMA, or at least their effect.
