When a federal appeals court in 1997 affirmed then-Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers’ right to rescind a job offer to Atlanta lawyer Robin Shahar because she’d planned a religious ceremony to bless her same-sex union, Shahar never thought she would see same-sex marriage legalized in her lifetime.
But Friday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, she said, “affirms that equality applies to all Americans regardless of who they love.”
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