Opponents of California Proposition 8 Support Full Participation for Gays in Right to Marriage
March 26, 2013
The historic constitutional test of gay marriage rights unfolds today, when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up California’s same-sex marriage ban, a case in which opponents to the ban seek not a narrow victory, but full participation by gay couples in the fundamental right to marry.
Challenge to DOMA Concentrates on Small Steps
March 26, 2013
As the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow considers the Defense of Marriage Act in the case of ‘United States v. Windsor,’ it is faced with dozens of briefs from, among others, groups of former military officials, intelligence officers and even a bankruptcy judge urging it to strike down the law. The question is whether the justices – and especially Anthony Kennedy – will agree that the time has come to change course.
