The announcement of this week’s U.S. Supreme Court rulings in two highly anticipated legal battles over same-sex marriage drew cheers from gay rights proponents and vows from opponents to continue the fight on a state-by-state basis.
The high court struck down as unconstitutional a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples in states that permitted gay marriage. In a separate case, the court let stand a lower court injunction against California's Proposition 8, the state ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage.
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