Wheeler declares May 19 'Marriage Equality Day,' honoring landmark Oregon case

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has proclaimed May 19 'Marriage Equality Day,' honoring a decade since the court case that legalized marriage equality in Oregon.

That decision in that case, Geiger v. Kitzhaber, was issued on that same day in 2014 when a U.S. District Court Judge struck down Oregon's limitations on marriage to same-gender couples. 

Twenty years ago, state voters passed a measure banning same-sex couples from marriage. Then 10 years later...