Amicus brief against gay marriage

Same-sex couples from across the country filed lawsuits in federal courts arguing that state laws and constitutional amendments that prohibit them from marrying violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This week's same-sex-marriage cases at the Supreme Court brought in a record number of friend-of-the–court briefs.

But truth be told, the justices do not read all of these briefs. Holding: The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state.

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The brief highlighted how nonrecognition laws (that is, state laws that refused to recognize same-sex marriage) compounded the challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals amicus brief against in the workplace. The LGBTQ+ community already confronted pervasive employment discrimination and limited opportunities. As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments April 28 on the fate of gay marriage, in cases from Kentucky and three other states, amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," briefs have.

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