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Alumnus engages Supreme Court on gay marriage
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the Defense of Marriage Act, a Furman graduate and his husband have submitted an open letter to Justice Antonin Scalia asking the Court to consider equality of laws and benefits in its deliberations. Jack Montgomery ’00 and Kelly Vielmo live in Washington, D.C. and are the parents of three adopted children; Montgomery’s video letter, read against the backdrop of images of the family, was posted on the Huffington Post webpage. See the video and story.