The U.S. Supreme Court, stepping into a historic legal, political and social debate, agreed on Friday to decide whether states can prohibit same-sex marriages without violating the federal Constitution.
The justices granted review in four pending cases in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld bans on marriage and the recognition of out-of-state marriages in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The justices directed briefing on both the marriage and recognition issues.
Arguments before the high court will be in April with a decision by the end of June. The court allotted 90 minutes to the question of whether the 14th Amendment requires a state to license same-sex marriages. The court will give an hour to argument over whether the 14th Amendment requires states to recognize “a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state.”
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