Perspective
Jan. 27, 2015
A day in court for same-sex marriage
On Jan. 16, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of laws denying marriage to same-sex couples. The time to recognize this basic civil right to Americans in every state has finally come. By Theane Evangelis
Exactly five years ago, in a federal courthouse in San Francisco, we listened to the proponents of Proposition 8 - California's constitutional same-sex marriage ban - opine on the "dangers" posed by the marriage of two loving, consenting adults. The proponents testified that Prop. 8 was motivated by the fear that allowing couples to marry "will cause states one-by-one to fall into Satan's hands." But their scare tac...
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