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Freedom To Marry Pursuing their Roadmap to Victory national strategy, they create the climate for a Supreme Court victory by working on three tracks: winning the freedom to marry in more states, growing the national majority for marriage, and ending federal marriage discrimination. They partner with individuals and organizations across the country to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage and the protections, responsibilities, and commitment that marriage brings. No one knows exactly when the Supreme Court will take the next marriage case - but in this dynamic period ahead, Freedom to Marry will be working the strategy of the Roadmap on two timelines. If the appeals court process in one or more of nearly 40 marriage-related lawsuits (or a case yet to be filed) moves quickly and the Court decides to hear a marriage case, we could see national resolution on the freedom to marry as early as 2015. If the Court decides to let the question linger a bit longer, we could be looking at a ruling in 2017 or later. While we cannot control the timing of when the Court will act, we do know the pathway forward - and we believe that we can win in a matter of years, not decades. There is no mathematical formula for how to show the Supreme Court at the country is ready for national resolution, but they do know that no matter what timeline the Court follows, they can maximize our chances of victory by growing public support, winning the freedom to marry in more states, and fully ending federal marriage discrimination. References: |
Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare. Carlos A. Ball places the current marriage debates within a broader historical context by exploring how the procreative and child welfare claims used to try to deny same-sex couples the opportunity to marry are similar to earlier arguments used to defend interracial marriage bans, laws prohibiting disabled individuals from marrying, and the differential treatment of children born out of wedlock. Ball also draws a link between welfare reform and same-sex marriage bans by explaining how conservative proponents have defended both based on the need for the government to promote responsible procreation among heterosexuals. In addition, Ball examines the social science studies relied on by opponents of same-sex marriage and explains in a highly engaging and accessible way why they do not support the contention that biological status and parental gender matter when it comes to parenting. He also explores the relevance of the social science studies on the children of lesbians and gay men to the question of whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. In doing so, the book looks closely at the gay marriage cases that recently reached the Supreme Court and explains why the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans cannot be defended on the basis that maintaining marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution helps to promote the best interests of children. Same-Sex Marriage and Children will help lawyers, law professors, judges, legislators, social and political scientists, historians, and child welfare officials-as well as general readers interested in matters related to marriage and families-understand the empirical and legal issues behind the intersection of same-sex marriage and children's welfare. |
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