I was taking my younger child home from a play date on Sunday and he asked me out of the blue, ?" "Why can't you marry your mother or your father?"

周日我带我的小儿子去玩，回家的路上,他突然问我，“你为什么不能和你的父母结婚“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Margot (Nicole Kidman), a novelist with a disconcerting habit of sticking a verbal knife into people, shows up at the house of her unhappy sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is about to marry an out-of-work rocker (Jack Black).

NEWYORKER: Margot at the Wedding

The practice seemed to have been allowed before statehood, and had been used for soldiers during the Second World War, but no one knew exactly why it had arisen: possibly because it was difficult to travel long distances to a courthouse to marry an out-of-state sweetheart.

NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

Rob Portman of Ohio announced he is now a supporter of the freedom to marry after finding out that his son -- a Yale sophomore -- is gay.

CNN: Marriage and the Supreme Court: Five things to watch