Nevada makes history at the polls with Question 2

Las Vegas (KSNV) — Las Vegas is the wedding capital of the world. Fitting then, that capital is in the first state in the nation defining marriage is for everyone.

It’s hard to imagine same sex marriage as the kind of thing that sneaks by without grabbing a headline. A decade ago it was illegal, six years ago a court ruling shook the State; we were there when the first same sex couple said I do on Oct. 9, 2014.

But this past Tuesday, Nevada did something no other state has done. Voters wrote it into their state constitution. Marriage is now defined as between two people, not just a man and a woman.

You may have missed it but Randy Slovacek did not.

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“What happened here in Nevada is so important,” he tells us “because god forbid something happens that we don’t see. Now we’re protected here in Nevada. Battle born.”

Randy is happily married. He celebrated his 25 anniversary last year. He and his husband were married twice; first in Canada before it was legal in the US, then again in California. His life has been chasing the daylight of acceptance as a shadow always followed. Until now when Nevada passed Question 2. It changed the State’s constitution, protecting marriages like his even if the Supreme Court ever reversed course. Chris Davin from Henderson’s Equality Center tells us that guarantee is important.

“We wanted to guarantee that if anything gets taken away in the Supreme Court with rolling back equality that marriages here in the state will stay,” he tells us, “that they don’t have to worry about losing their rights.”

So while the country watches Nevada possibly decide America’s future, the future here has already changed for so many.