MAKING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGAL It was a blazing hot morning on June 26 of people stood in the heat outside the 2015 in Washington DC Still a crowd Supreme Court building They were waiting to hear about an important decision It would change the lives of millions of Americans The news would come through a Washington tradition known as the Running of the Interns The Supreme Court does not allow recording devices This means the fastest way Interns have to run approximately 300 feet 90 m from the Supreme Court building to the press outside
to get news out is with paper copies In the Running of the Interns members of the media dash from the court to their news teams Then the news of the court’s outcome is broken to the public On this morning the court had made a decision in the case of Obergefell v Hodges This could legalize same-sex marriage across the country An intern for the news channel CNBC delivered the news first In a 5 to 4 decision the Supreme Court had given same-sex couples the right to marry The History of LGBT Rights In the 1960s many people viewed homosexuality as a mental illness Most Christians viewed it as immoral Relationships between men were illegal in many states People who were gay often lost their jobs They were treated poorly by their families and friends People in the gay community often gathered at bars There they could be themselves without fear However police often arrested many people at
The White House lit up with rainbow colors the gay pride emblem the night of the Obergefell ruling these bars One bar was the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village New York What happened there on June 28 1969 started the gay rights movement Usually people left bars after arrests were made However this night was different People outside the
