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Gay Marriage: How Should the Supreme Court Decide?
An anti-gay marriage case goes before the highest court in the land this week, and we’d like to get your take on how justices should decide.
Can a state ban gay marriage? That’s the question going before the United States Supreme Court this week as opponents of California’s Proposition 8, which effectively bans gay marriage, take their arguments to the highest court in the land. That proposition was approved by California voters in 2008, which was the same year Floridian’s passed a state constitutional amendment that prohibits gay marriage here. The premise of the challenge is that the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection clause found in the 14th Amendment effectively prohibits states like California (and Florida) from defining marriage as solely a union between man and woman. If the case makes it through a technical hurdle, justices are expected to hear arguments this…
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James S
6:26 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Tiff left an excellent comment but must have deleted it. What a shame. more ›