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Samuel Brinton, a nuclear physicist and member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., poses as Novice Sister Ray Dee O’Active outside the Supreme Court on April 28, 2015, when the court’s justices considered whether to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. He is a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a protest group that he called a “queer order of nuns.” Religion News Service photo by Adelle M. Banks