Marriage is a union between two people who love each other, who are committed to each
other, who care for each other as the phrase goes till death do us part. The opponents
of the equality for the LGBT people want to define it strictly as man and woman. The interesting
thing is that those unions end up in divorce. The divorce rate is half the marriages that
happen today break up in divorce. That lacks that essential element of a marriage: love
that leads to commitment to each other, two people who are committed to each other. And
so the Supreme Court recognizing that equality for two people who love each other who may
be of the same sex is a major step forward. Throughout history we have been expanding
equality to more and more people. When the nation was founded the shining ideas were
articulated by our forefathers who kept other human beings as slaves. When they said all
men are created equal, they meant that literally. Women couldn't vote, couldn't own property,
didn't have lights over their own children. So equality granted to the LGBT community
now is in that American tradition of expanding equality to more and more people.