Today marks an incredibly important event in U.S. history. For being a country that brags about the freedoms and liberties that are guaranteed to its citizens, it has proven time and again that it is slow to catch up to the ideas outlined in the Constitution. From slavery and the treatment of Natives from the time of the colonies to the present, women not having the right to vote until 1920, the fact the Civil Rights Act wasn't a thing until 50 years ago, all ways the government failed to uphold those ideas for a time. Even today, the struggle for equality is real. You only have to check social media to be exposed to the fact that discrimination makes the news daily.
But today, the Supreme Court made a decision that brings us all closer to the idea that "all men are created equal." In a ruling 5-4, same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. I personally identify as heterosexual, Caucasian, and middle class (as average as it gets), but as a human being I feel an obligation to fight for the rights being denied to the people around me because of the fact they were born a little different. Today a battle was won, maybe someday the war will be over and discrimination will be a thing of the past. Today I am proud to be an American.
*Image borrowed from an article at http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-53-of-americans-support-same-sex-marriage/ *
