Meet the lawyers who argued the gay marriage case

Washington (CNN)When a same sex couple turned to Mary L. Bonauto about 20 years ago for legal help to get married, the lawyer declined to take the case.

"Her sense was that we weren't quite ready for that yet," said Gary Buseck, the legal director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and a longtime friend and colleague of Bonauto. "Mary's thought was that there were a number of legal building blocks yet to be put in place before such a claim should be brought."

Bonauto, who has worked as GLAD's civil rights project director since 1990, spent the following years putting those building blocks in place. And on April 28, she'll argue before the Supreme Court that same-sex marriage should be legalized across the nation.


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Arguments will then turn to the second question before the Court: whether states have to recognize marriages performed out of state. Hallward-Driemeier will argue that question for those seeking to overturn state marriage bans.

A partner at Ropes & Gray LLP in Washington, Hallward-Driemeier, has been married to his wife, Mary, for 19 years. He said that in the end, he sees the case as about family.

"We have three boys, and I have no idea what their sexual orientation will be, but I want them very much to have the same opportunity to find happiness in marriage that I have had," he said in an interview.


It goes on to discuss all the lawyers who argued for or against
gay marriage before the supreme court and their history...... it is well worth the read.


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/24/politics/supreme-court-gay-marriage-lawyers/