"Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13."

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If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

— Jon Meacham