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Existing comment: Wedding-cake toppers
2008
used at the wedding of David DeFelice and Paul Scherbak in San Francisco

The expansion of civil rights to LGBTQ people, begun decades ago, continues to be debated in the United States. Soon after California legalized gay marriage in June 2008, David DeFelice married Paul Scherbak. Five months later, voters passed Proposition 8 and limited marriage to opposite-sex couples. In June 2013, the US Supreme Court let stand the right for same-sex couples to marry in California, but did not address laws banning same-sex marriage in other states.
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