Bozeman same-sex marriage advocates thrilled by Supreme Court ruling - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
They had been together for five years in 2003 when they decided to rent the Emerson Center and hold a non-legal marriage ceremony with 200 friends and family members. In November 2014 when U. S. District Court Judge Brian Morris ruled Montana’s gay marriage ban illegal, the two women went down to the courthouse and were legally married. “There’s no denying the ruling is a disappointment,” said Bowen Greenwood of Helena, the Montana Family Foundation’s communications director. He pointed to Chief Justice John Roberts’ dissent, saying essentially that the question shouldn’t be whether same-sex marriage is a good idea, but what the law is. Friday’s court ruling, Greenwood said, “overstepped its bounds. “Persons with same-sex attraction deserve the respect and dignity that is theirs as human beings and should be treated with compassion and love,” said the statement from Bishops George Leo Thomas of Helena and Michael Warfel of the Great... “At the same time, we affirm the sacred beauty of the natural institution of marriage between one man and one woman” which “most suitably provides for children, the family and the common good. Source: www.bozemandailychronicle.com
