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U.S. SUPREME COURT

Historic advance for gay marriage KEY PART OF DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT STRUCK DOWN IN 5-4 DECISION; IN SECOND RULING, COURT CLEARS WAY FOR MARRIAGES IN CALIFORNIA

Forrest Tracey of Albuquerque listens Wednesday to comments about a proposed ban on firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Proposed ammo limit goes down City Council votes 6-2 against 10-round restriction on magazines By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

The Santa Fe City Council voted down, 6-2, a measure that would have outlawed firearm magazines holding more than 10 rounds after Wednesday’s contentious, late-night meeting. Two-thirds of the nearly 70 people who spoke during a three-hour public hearing opposed the measure co-sponsored by Mayor David Coss and Councilors Patti Bushee and Ron Trujillo. The measure began to appear doomed when Trujillo withdrew his support shortly after 10 p.m. He said his change of heart came from listening to police Chief Ray Rael, who said the law would be difficult to enforce, and neighbors who told him they already had bought five or six weapons with large-capacity magazines on the Internet, and if the city measure passed,

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Jaroso Fire grows in Pecos Wilderness

Michael Knaapen, left, and his husband, John Becker, embrace Wednesday outside the Supreme Court in Washington after the court issued two landmark rulings advancing gay marriage. CHARLES DHARAPAK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Susan Montoya Bryan

Gay couples to receive benefits in states where marriages legal

Analysis: Court underscores shift on same-sex marriage

By Robert Barnes

By Dan Balz

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s first rulings on same-sex marriage produced historic gains for gay rights Wednesday: full federal recognition of legally married gay couples and an opening for such unions to resume in the nation’s largest state. The divided court stopped short of a more sweeping ruling that the fundamental right to marry must be extended to gay couples no matter where they live. But in striking down a key part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the court declared that gay couples married in states where it is legal must receive the same federal health, tax, Social Security and other benefits that heterosexual couples receive. In turning away a case involving California’s prohibition of same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, the justices left in place a lower court’s decision that the ban is unconstitutional. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown said he would order same-sex marriages to resume as quickly as possible.

WASHINGTON — Over the past five years, public attitudes about same-sex marriage have changed as quickly and as dramatically as on any social issue in modern memory. In its pair of decisions Wednesday, the Supreme Court provided a historic push to the movement even as it decided for now to leave the political wrangling over marriage to the states and the politicians. Everything about the decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 suggested that the justices fully recognize the direction the national debate is heading. By every measure, more and more Americans are coming to accept the idea that same-sex marriages should be legal, part of a cultural change of enormous significance. The scene outside the Supreme Court spoke to the status of the national debate and to interpretations of what the justices had done. There the huge throngs were dominated by supporters of same-sex marriage, and their jubilation in the wake of the court’s decisions showed that

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Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority on the Defense of Marriage Act: “The differentiation demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects … and whose relationship the State has sought to dignify.”

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The New Mexican

Gay and lesbian couples in New Mexico interviewed Wednesday were happy about the U.S. Supreme Court decisions, but some expressed caution that much work needs to be done before marriage equality comes to this state. The high court declared as unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by

Congress in the 1990s. In a second case, the court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by deciding that defenders of that state’s gay marriage ban didn’t have the right to appeal lower court rulings that nullified the ban. “This is great news,” Melanie Moore of Santa Fe said Wednesday. She went to New York in April to marry her partner, Maggie Moore. Another Santa Fe couple, friends of

the Moores, went with them for a double ceremony in a state where gay marriage is legal. “This is all part of the journey,” she said. “I look forward to the day when this isn’t such a polarizing issue and it’s just part of everyday life.” Referring to her infant daughters, Moore said, “Hopefully, by the time our twins are old enough to ask about it, it’ll be long in the rear-view mirror.”

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This is all part of the journey. I look forward to the day when this isn’t such a polarizing issue and it’s just part of everyday life.” Melanie Moore, who married her partner in April Index

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‘Chapter Two’

In New Mexico, cautious optimism By Steve Terrell

ALBUQUERQUE — A lightning-sparked wildfire burning in the Pecos Wilderness of Northern New Mexico raced across more than 5 square miles of forest in 24 hours, moving ever closer Wednesday to the headwaters of a river that is home to some of the state’s most popular fishing spots. The area has been closed for weeks now due to fires and the escalating danger of new blazes breaking out, but with more steep canyons and mountain sides being burned bare, post-fire flooding and erosion could end up having effects on the Pecos River that will last for years. “That whole area is just going to be devastated, depending on where the rains come and how hard it

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Obituaries

Today Mostly sunny. High 99, low 64.

Anita Morris Kaune, 79, June 19 Annie Coriz, 81, June 20 Gerald K. Metter, Carson, N.M., June 17 Manuel Guadalupe Miera “Manny,” June 25 Maria F. Ulibarri PAGE A-10

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