Download Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas AudioBook Free
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only 10 state governments and the Region of Columbia. That yr the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the entranceway to marriage equality. In Texas, Make Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for 16 years and deeply in love, thought about why nobody had stepped over the threshold to test their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to become a member of a lawsuit being come up with by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLD. 2 yrs later - after anxious battles in the Government District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, after resting through oral arguments at the Supreme Court of america in Obergefell v. Hodges - they earned the right to marry deep in the heart of Texas. However the road they traveled was never easy. Accidental Activists is the deeply moving story of two men who battled to achieve the dignity which Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke in a series of Supreme Court decisions that acknowledged the "personhood", the essential humanity of gays and lesbians. Author David Collins says Make and Vic's story in the framework of legal and communal history and explains the complex legal issues and developments encircling same-sex marriage in layman's terms.
