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" Let us pause for a moment and recognize Mary Bonauto. Bonauto, a dogged, brilliant lawyer from the Commonwealth (God save it!), won the Goodridge decision before the Supreme Judicial Court. She gave the issue of marriage equality a legal momentum that became irresistible, until it finally swept away its last legal barrier on Friday, when Bonauto won her case before the Supreme Court. The recordings and transcripts of the oral arguments in Obergefell et. al were released, and they show Bonauto completely overmatching not only opposing counsel, but also those justices clearly in opposition to her position. (Her colloquy about Plato with Justice Samuel Alito is pretty damn hilarious.) So before we spill oceans of ink about what happened on Friday morning, we should pause to applaud someone who was fighting this battle long before the country dramatically changed its mind, and who has been a winter soldier of the first rank ever since. For his part, Justice Anthony Kennedy left no doubt that the marriage equality extended to interracial couples in Loving v. Virginia now must be extended to same-sex couples. Significantly, he strongly reinforced the battered protections of the good old 14th Amendment along the way.  &amp;quot;The fundamental liberties protected by the Fourteenth Amendment&amp;#039;s Due Process clause extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices defining personal identity and beliefs...History and tradition guide and discipline the inquiry but do not set its outer boundaries. When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution&amp;#039;s central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed.&amp;quot;  The law, as someone once said, must be stable but not stand still. The country has changed on this issue and now the country&amp;#039;s fundamental law has been changed along with it. There are heroes to this story. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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