Wait, So What’s the Law On Same-Sex Marriage Exactly?
The Supreme Court Resolved Some Big Issues. It Also Triggered About a Thousand Follow-Up Questions.
Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court have settled some questions: Federal discrimination against same-sex marriages is now unconstitutional. California must now reopen marriage to same-sex couples. But the decisions have also raised broad new legal and political questions—not to mention literally thousands of technical questions about how to apply existing statutes and regulations to same-sex marriages. That was the message from a panel of experts on marriage, constitutional law, and Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender rights during a Zócalo/UCLA Williams Institute event at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. In the short term, …
