The man has a stunning legacy. First black Prez, and he managed to do something with healthcare (not single payer, but that's asking for the moon and stars) AND marriage equality. I love that guy.

thumbs up guys....thumbs way up. never have i been happier to be a straight ally of my LGBTQ peeps...my facebook feed is all rainbows and hugs and stars and unicorns and love today

I just got an email from one of his peeple at barackobama.com, saying, "It's just called marriage now". Indeed. There's no such thing as gay marriage. It's all just called marriage. Yay :-)

To all who did not live to see this day, I salute you. You are missed terribly, you are loved and we are ever so grateful for all of the hard work you did for us, for the hard talks you had with those who disagreed with us about our "lifestyle", for all the hugs and pats on the back telling us that we are not abominations or deviants like so many believed. Tonight I will raise my glass to you. Gone but never forgotten.

THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! ♥

Ben Carson is openly black, Carly Fiorina is openly female. Come on now, Senator Graham. You know you want to do this. It's dark in there. Come on out, into the light.

@3 I came to post just that. When I legally marry my spouse, it won't be a "gay marriage", it will just be a marriage. It's an amazing feeling, and I never expected it to come so soon. I thought the country would be dragged kicking and screaming into the right decision. Now it's time to celebrate. Congrats to everybody, thank you to everyone involved, but remember that the fight is not over. We still need federal non-discrimination protection for the LGBT community as well.

@1 also, he got bin laden! (It's fun to bring up that little episode because what can the right say to that?)
@4 Indeed. The road to marriage equality was paved with the blood, sweat and tears of people who were up against some serious shit.

This is a great step forward! Onto federal anti discrimination protection. Let's give credit where credit is due. Jim Obergefell and the plaintiffs that joined him are the true heros for driving this thru their state courts and up thru the federal courts. That is a long, hard road and they persistently drove it the whole way. They deserve the bulk of the credit.
Obama has been an empty vessel on gay marriage. He used gay marriage as a tool to motivate supporters during the election and promptly dropped the topic once elected. He has only had nice words on the topic, when those words suited him, and zero presidential action. Gay marriage and Bin Laden's execution happened on his watch but he had little to do with either win.

cdb dear, If Mitt Romney or John McCain had been President when those Supreme Court vacancies came up, who do you think would have been appointed, and what would have been today's decision?

Elections matter. Maybe you'll never find that perfect candidate that does exactly what you want, when and where you want it, but most adults can get over that. I suggest you give it a try.

A friend posted the following on his feed:

Yesterday, I was married*.
Today, I am married.

I can't imagine what today feels like to my gay brothers and sisters. But that post gave me the smallest of glimpses.

@11,

I can tell you a little what it was like. I legally married my same-sex spouse a couple of years ago when it became legal here. But if we drove across the country to visit relatives back east, I'd have to worry state-by-state, trying to remember which states recognized our marriage and which didn't. I worried that if one of us got a job transfer to another state, we would become unmarried under their laws. We lived together for 25 years before we could get married, with the legal status of roommates. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the soul-crushing stigma of living every day with assholes on TV and radio comparing my relationship to pedophilia and bestiality.

So yeah... it's kind of a big day.

Barack. Kisses.
Just called Marriage now.
Births. Deaths. And Marriages.

The world just got better and kinder, and more just (a whole lot for the 4% of humanity living in the USA, gay *and* straight, and by extension for all of us).

freedomtomarry.org says it is shutting down. NOOO! There are still >100 countries and over 90% of humanity without this basic human right! Time to use your wealthy and powerful contacts, Evan Wolfson, to fund a move for global justice, working in partnership with local NGOs!

Dan, please use your all-powerful Gay Agenda Network (hah!) and try to convince Wolfson to go global!

@8, no sour grapes for me. I'm all for gay marriage and rights. Today is a sweet, sweet day.

@10, I hear ya on no perfect candidate. I don't expect one, and certainly don't expect a candidate that does just what I want every time. I take offense when Obama talks big for votes, fails to act on gay marriage and then claims it. Let's honor the people who actually did the work, right?
Adults understand compromise but they also expect their leaders to honor their commitments. The sour taste in my mouth comes from Obama's two sided speech. Hillary is set to follow the same dishonest pattern. Everyone cheering Obama today gives her fuel for another faux liberal swindle.

Cmon @ 15. Obama praised all who have shown courage in getting to this point. Smile. Back to the yuk of politics later.
For now. We can all just smile.

It's a beautiful day.

The weird thing? I stopped into a gay bar on the way home. Thought they'd be celebrating. Total cud-chewing normalcy. WTF? Anyway, still a great day.

It is a great day. It's a day that has been hard fought-for. Congratulations to everyone for that hard work; congratulations for all those who can now get married no matter where they live; congratulations to everyone whose marriage is now recognized all over the country, to those who were married* and are now simply married.

We are one messed-up nation, but today, a little less messed up.

So the conservatives said that after this happens the next thing is I'll be allowed to marry my goat so when does that happen?

Gay marriage and Bin Laden's execution happened on his watch...

If you ask me, that's one fucking cool Rolex. Can Apple match that? I don't think so.

18/Lance: The weird thing? I stopped into a gay bar on the way home. Thought they'd be celebrating.

I'm not surprised they weren't. Celebrating would be frivolity that would take precious time away from their planning for total world domination. Gay marriage is just the first domino to fall. Next will be gay pizza, gay pastrami and gay Cap'n Crunch (OK, the Cap'n is a little gay already); then Cher songs on everyone's playlist; then the GNFL & GNBA; then movie remakes (It's a Wonderful Gay Life", "West Side Gay Story", "The Seven Gay Samurai", "Gay Jaws", "The Big Gay Lebowski") and on and on and on and on until the entire planet is just a seething, writhing, spinning mass of globally-warmed gayness.

Mr Thrust - Actually, wouldn't bars be naturally *against* marriage? Or might they think the Married would have more reason to leave home and seek out copious quantities of alcohol?

@22 Uh, Roma, if you made West Side Story more gay, you'd cause a rift in the fabric of spacetime. (Or perhaps that would be a Riff in spacetime.)