Two Fathers, One Fight

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

June 21, 1998. Father's Day. At the Church of the Atonement in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Jon and Michael Galluccio are ready to tie the knot, in front of family, friends, reporters, and one lone picketer. The Galluccios are already public figures—a few months earlier, they had secured the right for gay and unmarried couples to jointly adopt children. And today, they pull up to their wedding in a minivan, with their son in tow: as a family. How did this family come together? And how did their son's adoption end up changing the lives of other families all across the country?

Special thanks to our guests, Jon and Michael Galluccio. Their book is called An American Family.

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0:00.0	The History Channel, original podcast.
0:05.0	History this week, June 21, 1998, Father's Day.
0:11.5	I'm Sally Helm.
0:14.5	At the Church of Atonement in Fairlorn, New Jersey,
0:18.0	there's going to be a wedding.
0:23.0	A crowd is forming outside, people cheering for the couple to be.
0:27.0	There are also reporters and police who brought bomb-sniffing dogs
0:33.0	to sweep the sanctuary to make sure that nothing goes wrong.
0:37.0	One lone picketter holds a sign that reads,
0:41.0	there are no gaze in heaven.
0:43.5	Repent.
0:46.5	John and Michael Galuchio arrive at their wedding
0:49.5	with purple-tipped orchids pinned to their lapels.
0:53.0	Technically, this is a holy union ceremony.
0:56.5	Same-sex marriage won't be legalized in New Jersey for another 15 years.
1:01.0	And technically, the Galuchios had already marked their holy union.
1:05.3	They'd held a private ceremony the night before at a nearby church,
1:09.0	surrounded by their family and friends.
1:12.5	But the Galuchios still want to have this ceremony.
1:17.0	In front of not just God and their loved ones,
1:19.5	but the press, their supporters, and the picketers.
1:24.0	Because the Galuchios are already public figures.
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