Behold! The First Registered Same-Sex Marriage in Washington. D.C!
First the U.S. Supreme Court chose NOT to block this move forward into civil equality - and neither did the Congress.
It is worth nothing that this is the FIRST place SOUTH of the infamous Mason-Dixon line, that used to separate the cultures of Northern America and Southern America (non-slave states and slave states, respectively), to legalize samex-sex marriage.
Brief history lesson flash!
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 created the political conditions which made the Mason-Dixon Line important to the history of slavery. It was during the Congressional debates leading up to the compromise that the term "Mason-Dixon line" was first used to designate the entire boundary between free states and slave states.
Here is a link to a photo of the first registered same-sex couple of Washington D.C. - 12 year partners Sinjoyla Townsend and Angelisa Young.
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