<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Catch a hint, Idaho!</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of CNN at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/world/europe/france-same-sex-wedding/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/world/europe/france-same-sex-wedding/index.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><h1 style="padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-size: 30px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 33px; width: 600px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: left; ">After months of protests, French couple ties knot in first same-sex wedding</h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: left; "><br></strong></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: left; ">Montpellier, France (CNN)</strong><span style="text-align: left; "> -- The French city of Montpellier witnessed history Wednesday when its mayor officiated the nation's first same-sex wedding in front of hundreds of guests.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; "><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau exchanged vows at a ceremony in the southern city, watched by some 500 guests seated on brightly colored chairs.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Autin, 40, is the head of the region's Lesbian and Gay Pride association, and he says his wedding to Boileau, 30, marks a big step forward for same-sex equality.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">"When French children are born into this world, they are born with the same rights as everyone else -- but from the moment you said you were a homosexual, society deprived you of some of those rights," Autin told CNN in the couple's only interview on their wedding day.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today the French Republic has given these rights back to us, the ones they had taken away, and it has put an end to an institutional discrimination."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; ">While France has allowed civil partnerships for some years, controversial legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt was signed into law by President Francois Hollande 10 days ago.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Boileau said he and Autin plan to build a family together.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">"We want children, we want to pass down values that are important to us, that we hold dear, that are right. And we want grandchildren and great-grandchildren, a real family," he said.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, minister of women's rights and a government spokeswoman, was among those attending the landmark ceremony, reflecting the governing Socialist Party's support for same-sex marriage. Montpellier's mayor, Helene Mandroux, also belongs to the party.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Protest marches</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">However, the move has prompted fierce opposition from many social conservatives and the Catholic Church, with hundreds of thousands of people joining protest marches in Paris and other cities over recent months.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">While no official demonstrations were planned, there were concerns protesters would gather in Montpellier on Wednesday.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">About 200 police officers were mobilized around the city in case of trouble, Montpellier police said.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">On Sunday, a march against same-sex marriage in Paris attracted big crowds.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> Police put the turnout at 150,000, while the organizers estimated that a million people had turned out to fill the Esplanade des Invalides, a central plaza.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Opposition lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to have the new law blocked by France's highest court after it cleared the National Assembly and Senate.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Some 200 journalists were accredited to cover the wedding, many from overseas, signaling the global interest in the social landmark represented by the marriage.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font color="#000000" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/world/same-sex-marriage-next-country/index.html" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Same-sex marriage: Who will legalize it next?</a></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Guillaume Bonnet, senior campaign manager in France for the equality group All Out, said he was honored to be a guest at the wedding on what he described as a historic day for his country.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">"We have shown that if we all work together anything is possible," he said. "Now couples like Vincent and Bruno can create life full of love and family just like any other loving and committed couple."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Internationally divisive</strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">France is the ninth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriage.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">If pending legislation in New Zealand and Uruguay is enacted as expected this year, the worldwide total of countries with legalized same-sex marriage will rise to 14.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Many countries remain split over the issue. A Brazilian court issued a directive this month removing a barrier that had limited same-sex marriage, but no bill has made it through Congress.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Legislators in the</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://cnn.com/2013/02/05/world/europe/uk-gay-marriage-vote/index.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; ">United Kingdom are also weighing proposals</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">to legalize same-sex marriage. Lawmakers in Australia voted against a bill to legalize same-sex marriage last September. A poll for the advocacy group Australian Marriage Equality indicated that 64% of those surveyed "support marriage equality."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">In the United States, the question went before the Supreme Court and justices are deliberating over the matter.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Twelve U.S. states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriages. On the other side, many states have specific laws blocking same-sex couples from legally marrying.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">--------------------</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vincent Autin, left, and his partner Bruno Boileau, chat with journalists on May 28, 2013, in Montpellier, France.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img src="cid:0E7BF255-EA77-4AD5-AA58-42F6A2C85AE2" alt="130529105240-france-same-sex-marriage-couple-story-top.jpg" id="0E7BF255-EA77-4AD5-AA58-42F6A2C85AE2" width="640" height="360"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>