http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/us-v-windsor-gay-marriage_n_3554269.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20VoicesAuthor: Mark Sherman Source: Huffington Post
"When the Supreme Court struck down part of an anti-gay marriage law, Justice Anthony Kennedy took pains in his majority opinion to say the ruling applied only to legally married same-sex couples seeking benefits from the federal government. But judges and lawyers representing same-sex couples are already using Kennedy's language and reasoning in other cases about the right to marry."
"In Michigan, a federal judge prominently cited the Windsor decision in allowing a challenge to the state's marriage ban and its prohibition on same-sex couples jointly adopting children to go forward."
The same-sex marriage legal movement is reminescent of the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s-70s, where the parties in Plessey v. Ferguson were unable to get rid of segregation in one legal swoop, but rather it took multiple cases over the years to slowly chip away at segregation.
