Today's effective win of full marriage equality for same-sex couples in California is a wonderful victory in this time of progress for civil rights.
Massachusetts was indeed a breakthrough, but no longer lonely, joined in equal rights law by the more than 36 million citizens of California.
I am so proud of the thousands of volunteers and citizens who have worked for many years to achieve victories like today's.
In 1998 at the University of Connecticut, I led a group of students in proposing the "Marriage Resolution" to the student body government. The result, after much human connection and sharing our feelings and stories, was the official endorsement of equal rights for marriage without regard to sex by the representatives of the students of the largest public university in our state.
I am profoundly grateful for hundreds of communities who have come together, like ours at UConn, and individuals, especially San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom with his courageous and peaceful stand for Truth, issuing marriage licenses in his city in 2004.
Thank every one of you who is reading this. Every time you put Love above Fear and Anger, you contribute to our human family. That's why progress like this happens.