Same-Sex Marriage and the Long Arc of History
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March 5 (Bloomberg) -- It is too soon to predict how theU.S. Supreme Court will deal with the issue of same-sexmarriage, but history has already been made.
The Department of Justice argued last week that in thecontext of marriage (and everywhere else), courts should treatdiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation withessentially the same hostility they apply to discrimination onthe basis of race and sex. To understand the importance of thatargument, detailed in a brief opposing a 2008 California lawbanning same-sex marriage, we need to step back a bit.