Standard Form Approach to Same-Sex Marriage, A

No Thumbnail Available

Authors

Ribstein, Larry E.

Issue Date

2005

Type

Journal Article

Language

Keywords

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Alternative Title

Abstract

INTRODUCTION|There is a bitter culture and legal war raging over same-sex marriage. Some see marriage as a moral foundation of our civilization and same-sex marriage as a profound threat to the stability of marriage. Others see same-sex marriage as the key battle in the war for gay rights. Still others may be agnostic about same-sex marriage, but see laws banning same-sex marriage as an unwarranted intrusion on liberty. The courts have stirred the pot, most notably in the Massachusetts cases of Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health ("Goodridge") and Opinion of the Justices to the Senate ("OJS"), the Supreme Court's opinion in Lawrence v. Texas ("Lawrence"), and a Washington lower court decision, Andersen v. King County...

Description

Citation

38 Creighton L. Rev. 309 (2004-2005)

Publisher

Creighton University School of Law

License

Journal

Volume

Issue

PubMed ID

DOI

ISSN

EISSN