KUMD: The Wedding Heard 'Round the World

By Lisa Johnson

KUMD

January 14, 2016

The Wedding Heard 'Round the World (Michael McConnell and Jack Baker) Michael McConnell and his husband of 44 years, Jack Baker, were gay-married when gay-married wasn't cool - or even legal. But was it? How it's possible that gay marriage was legal all along ... and an inspiring story where love wins.

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