Ellen DeGeneres announces plans to get married after
yesterday’s court ruling.

post from Think Progress on 16 May 2008 10:32:00 AM. © Think Progress

Today, on her talk show, host Ellen DeGeneres applauded the California Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the state’s ban on gay marriage and announced that she would be wedding her longtime girlfriend, actress Portia de Rossi:

This is very exciting, I have to say. Yesterday, the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage. So I would like to say right now, for the first time, I am announcing that I am getting married. […]
I’m so excited. It’s something that we’ve, of course, wanted to do, and we’ve wanted to be legal, and we’re very very excited.

The audience gave her and de Rossi, who was also present, a long, standing ovation. Watch it:

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