One married an Anglican and converted to Anglicanism; the other married a divorcee.
Those laws, however, only assure whatever benefits other married couples enjoy under state law.
"We're like every other married couple I know," Mr. Greenberg said.
Notoriously possessive, he dismissed both Nijinsky (in 1913) and Massine (in 1921) from his company when first one, then the other, married.
A quarter-century's experience of being married and watching other married couples in action suggests to me that most people strongly disapprove of adultery.
He said: "My honest advice to you, is to take this opportunity to give them the same pain and suffering every other married person has.
It means that in the eyes of federal law, I finally have the same rights as every other married person in America.
Mr. Brown's hypothesis fails by another criterion: Mary would have been referred to, like every other married woman in the Gospels, by her husband's name.
The film cuts to 29 years later when both men are US marine colonels, one divorced, the other married to the corps.
A ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would not legalize same-sex marriage in states that have not done so, but it would give same-sex couples in all states access to benefits and protections available to other married couples.
Reed, 23, in his first full season on the PGA Tour, employs his wife as his caddie, an arrangement seldom seen on tour for reasons that seem self-evident to other married couples.
