Constitutional Law
Dec. 20, 2003
Gender Neutral
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The historic decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Goodridge v. Department of Health, 2003 WL 22701313 (Mass. Nov. 18, 2003), got it exactly right: Gays and lesbians in the United States should be accorded the right to marry. Although the Massachusetts court based its decision on that state's constitution, its reasoning applies with equal force to the U.S. Constitution.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
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