Jim Obergefell Research Paper

Jim Obergefell was born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the youngest out of five other siblings and was raised based upon the catholic religion. Around the middle age of twenty Jim Obergefell finally came out to his family as gay. In 1992 Jim met his reason to fight for gay rights, John Arthur. After these two had frequently met up they began to fall for each other more, and as time went by the both of them lived together, worked together, and began to live a normal happy life together surrounded by supportive family and friends.
In 2011, Arthur began to have serious medical issues, and eventually was diagnosed with “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.” As time continued to go by his condition kept becoming worse and soon he was not able to move at all. Obergefell became Arthur’s main care taker and soon took care of all of his needs and stayed by his side as much as he could. Obergefell and Arthur decided to get legally married as they noticed their time together was becoming short. The state of Ohio, which they were living in at the time had already passed a state amendment that banned gay marriage, so the two had to find their way out of the maze that they were stuck in to …show more content…
They chose the state of Maryland, because same-sex marriage was legal and only one partner had to be present to receive the license. Obergefell wanted more, he wanted for both him and his partner to be able to be in Maryland at the same time. Obergefell received thirteen thousand dollars with the help from friends, family, and associates. He used the money to hire a medical plane that would be able to take both himself and Arthur to Maryland. Instead of finding another person, they used Arthur’s aunt Paulette Roberts to officiate their wedding ceremony. The two ending up getting married on the tarmac of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on the date of July 11,