The Supreme Court Hearing on Obergefell v. Hodges, Also Known As The Same-Sex Marriage Case
No clear answers on same-sex marriage: In Plain English
The Supreme Court's Blog, SCOTUSblog, has weighed in on the court's hearings today:
"It could turn out to be a nailbiter. After two-and-a-half hours of oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, it was not clear where Justice Anthony Kennedy – and therefore the rest of the Court – was headed. Let's talk about the oral argument in Plain English."
Read more at the ScotusBlog site
Right: A symbolic marriage cake in favor of allowing gay marriages in Italy not only to heterosexual couples but to lesbian and gay ones as well. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, January 26 2008. Wikimedida Commons
http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2014/14-556-q1
http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2014/14-556-q2
Update: The audiotapes of the hearing — first, a ninety-minute tape on the marriage issue (question one) , followed by a one-hour tape on the marriage-recognition issue — have been posted and the second question is being streamed on the Court's website and can be listened to.
Anyone interested in the proceedings will be able to access the recording and transcript directly through links on the homepage of the Court’s Website and those links above. The Court's Website address is www.supremecourt.gov.
The New York Times has commented on the hearings:
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The Scotus Blog: Same-sex marriage: The decisive questions
The New York Times has devoted a page of sources for information on the topic:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/same_sex_marriage/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
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