<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rodna and I recently celebrated our 40th anniversary; forty of the most wonderful years of my life. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">To deny ANY two people of that experience, simply because maybe somebody read it in a book somewhere is simply WRONG ! ! !</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">How does it go? LIFE, LIBERTY, and (what?)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of NBC News at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-strikes-down-idahos-same-sex-marriage-ban-n104796">http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-strikes-down-idahos-same-sex-marriage-ban-n104796</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 class="stack-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; cursor: default; height: auto; width: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0.75rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 2.5rem; font-size: 2.25rem; font-family: proxima_nova_ltsemibold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Judge Strikes Down Idaho's Same-Sex Marriage Ban</h1><p id="ember968" class="ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A federal magistrate judge has ruled that Idaho's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.</span></p><p id="ember969" class="ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale wrote in the ruling Tuesday evening that Idaho's laws banning same-sex marriage unconstitutionally deny gay and lesbian citizens of their fundamental right to marry.</span></p><div id="ember974" class="ember-view ad-location" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="ad-content" id="moceanTop-news-us-news-n104796-ember974" data-bindattr-32="32" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; height: auto; margin-left: 0px;"><div id="ember980" class="ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div></div><p id="ember975" class="ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dale says marriage works a fundamental change on the lives of all who experience it, and holds immense personal and spiritual significance. She says Idaho's laws wrongly stigmatize gay and lesbian couples and relegate their families to second-class status without sufficient reason.</span></p><p id="ember976" class="ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has already said he intends to appeal the case.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">An offer: <i>Moscow Cares</i> will photograph, videotape, and substantially financially contribute to the first same-sex marriage to take place here in Moscow.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></body></html>