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Right before the holiday, the White House hosted a celebration.

Today, I sign the respect for Marijak and the law.

Actually, this was a signing ceremony. It just felt like a party. The Boystress crowd

on the White House South Lawn was there to celebrate the respect for Marijak, which is a law

that protects the validity of same-sex and interracial marriages, both at the federal level

and state-by-state. Strangely, it's a law that doesn't do all that much, yet. The mood

was victorious anyway.

And now, a law requires the interracial marriage and same-sex marriage must be recognized as legal

in every state and nation.

It's funny, isn't it? Because it's a victory against a hypothetical.

David Mack writes for BuzzFeed. He says, it was a little jarring to see so much enthusiasm

for what is at its core, a defensive move.

We're trying to use this moment where they have the power in Congress to pass this, should

the Supreme Court, this newly-emboldened conservative wing of the Supreme Court, do to marriage

equality what they've just done to 50 years of abortion rights in this country. And there

was the momentum to just say, look, why not? Let's just do this, just in case. Protect

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