Law Practice
May 21, 2008
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Justice Marvin Baxter's dissent in "In Re Marriage Cases" is, at best, an example of an unsupported slippery slope argument.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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The legal pivot on which In re Marriage Cases turns is astonishingly accessible. The majority reasons that sexual orientation discrimination regarding marriage licenses is, in important respects, similar to the ban on interracial marriage successfully challenged in Perez v. Sharp. Although the case is not directly on point, the aphorism that like cases should be decided alike nonetheless applies.
Would-be attorneys are, nonetheless, ta...
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