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For the record: Today’s oral arguments in Hollingsworth vs. Perry

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a landmark gay marriage case that could make same-sex marriages legal in the States. Today, the court heard arguments against Proposition 8, California’s 2008 law that prohibits same-sex marriage and defines marriage as taking place between a man and a woman. Up on Wednesday are arguments for and against DOMA, the Defence of Marriage act, which bars the federal government from offering some rights to same-sex couples, even if their home state allows them to wed.

Hollingsworth vs. Perry

Same-sex marriage in California: the trap closes?

Somehow a majority vote against SSM will have led directly to the near-permanent entrenchment of it

An unlikely conspirator in Prop 8’s murder

How an anti-SSM Supreme Court justice provided an argument to lift the ban