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March 27, 2013

U.S. definition of marriage less a focus than who's defining it

Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act, gestures outside the Supreme Court in Washington March 27 after the justices heard oral arguments in the case. The court took up the constitutional challenge to the federal law a day after hearing arguments on the constitutionality of California's law banning same-sex marriage.

WASHINGTON - In its second day of oral arguments about aspects of laws related to same-sex marriage March 27, the Supreme Court spent little time discussing the actual definition of marriage, focusing instead on issues of jurisdiction, state's rights, motives behind the federal Defense of Marriage Act and timing.

Published in International