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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Ernie and Bert and the meaning of marriage equality

Posted on 3:19 PM by Unknown

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Here's one of the greatest magazine covers ever. In its quiet way, it its expression of love, it explains what the whole fight over same-sex marriage, over equal rights, is all about. I find it deeply moving.

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