Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis officiated at the wedding of two South Dakotans Saturday:
“Congratulations to this fabulous couple. Twenty-seven years together. Twenty-seven years of family. Twenty-seven years of love and commitment,” Mayor Betsy Hodges said at the ceremony.
Nancy and Jennie Rosenbrahn were married Saturday afternoon.
Mayor Betsy Hodges officiated their wedding at the Community of Christ Church in Minneapolis ["Mpls. Mayor Officiates Wedding for 2 S.D. Women," WCCO/CBS Minnesota, 2014.04.26].
The happy couple will now sue South Dakota to get their marriage recognized. Attorney General Marty Jackley stands ready to defend South Dakota's discrimination against committed non-heterosexual couples, saying the courts should not offer justice, only the voters. Governor Dennis Daugaard says his AG should defend South Dakota's injustice.
Goldwater Republican blogger John Tsitrian disagrees. He shouts "Mazel Tov!" and "Social Contract!" to the new couple and tells his fellow Republicans to revisit their principles:
...consider this additional thought from Goldwater's acceptance speech: "The beauty of the very system we Republicans are pledged to restore and revitalize, the beauty of this Federal system of ours is in its reconciliation of diversity with unity." I think it is indeed time for us Republicans to re-evaluate our basic assumptions, and I extend my gratitude, along with my heartfelt congratulations, to Mrs. and Mrs. Rosenbrahn for making this blessed event the catalyst for some long overdue considerations within the local GOP [John Tsitrian, "Mazel Tov...," The Constant Commoner, 2014.04.26].
Nancy, Jennie, bring on that lawsuit, and let's knock Jackley, Daugaard, and the rest of the SDGOP into some 21st-century consistency with their professed principles of liberty.