U.S. Supreme Court Will Rule on Gay Marriage This Term
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide on gay marriage this term.
The justices said today they will review an appellate court’s decision to uphold the ban on same-sex marriage in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Kentucky. The four states are among 14 that ban same-sex marriage.
NPR’s legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg, tells our Newscast unit that in all four states, district court judges struck down the ban, but their decisions were reversed by a panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals based in Ohio. She adds:
“The court said it would hear arguments for 2 1/2 hours in April on two questions: first, whether the constitutional guarantee to equal protection of the law renders invalid state bans on same-sex marriage. And, second, whether states are required to recognize the marriage of a same-sex couple who marry legally in another state.”
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