Reaction: North Dakota couple on SCOTUS gay marriage ruling

The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a historic culmination of decades of litigation over gay marriage and gay rights generally. Gay and lesbian couples already could marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The court's 5-4 ruling means the remaining 14 states, in the South and Midwest, will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage.

That includes North Dakota. MPR News' Tom Weber talked with one couple in Fargo. David Hamilton and Bernie Erickson had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court that challenged the state's ban on same-sex marriage. They got married in Canada.

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