“The right to marry whomever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.”
Hannah Arendt, in Dissent, Winter 1959
Portrait by Christian Steiner.
With Marin Alsop presiding, J and I were legally married in Capitola, California on August 8th, 2008.
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