TPM Exclusive: John Roberts’ Openly Gay Cousin Will Now Be Getting Married

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When the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for and against the constitutionality of DOMA this March, Chief Justice John Roberts probably noticed a familiar face in the crowd — his openly gay cousin, Jean Podrasky.

At the time, Podrasky found the arguments difficult to hear, and a little nerve-racking, no doubt in part because Podrasky was engaged to be married to her partner, and stuck in limbo until the Court issued its decision on California’s Proposition 8.

Now that the ruling is in, Podrasky says that the magnitude of the ruling overwhelms whatever personal disagreements she has with her cousin, who signed on with the minority view that DOMA should be upheld.

“I am so excited. I am absolutely overwhelmed,” Podrasky told me in a phone interview Wednesday.

“I can now get married. I feel like my partner and I have been in limbo for several years. We’ve been engaged for a couple years, but now we can start planning.”


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[LonePirate]

1. Will she be inviting her bigoted cousin to her wedding?

[HockeyMom]

2. My daughter will invite her bigoted, religious cousin

plus her 3 siblings, and their mother (her Aunt) to her wedding. They will all come except that cousin. HER LOSS. She will be all alone in her immediate family for not attending.

[stillwaiting]

4. I respect your daughter's decision to invite her bigoted cousin.

However, I could not do the same.

I will not invite anyone to my wedding that feels that gay people should not get married. I just can't imagine having people attending my wedding that think that it should not be allowed. For me, it would introduce so much negativity to a day where there should be none.

If I did invite people who didn't think gay marriage should be allowed, and I saw their faces and interacted with them on my wedding day, it WOULD make me feel negative emotions, and I simply have no desire to introduce those feelings to my special day.

I'm sure many would disagree and many others would not understand, but I remain firm and resolved in this opinion. I will end up excluding many family members from my wedding, and for me it is the correct thing to do.

I hope your daughter's wedding is a wonderful and special day for all who attend!!

[KamaAina]

3. Whargarble monkey balls he should have recused himself yada yada yada!!11!!1!

You know that's what they're saying at FR. Except they probably misspelled "recuse".