RE: Marriage -- the Alito dissent

2013-07-21 Thread b...@jmcenter.org
Eugene, I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment below. I am aware of excuses but not a rational basis for limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. Nor am I aware of how DOMA doesn't violate the constitutional right marry based on Loving v. Virginia and Lawrence v. Texas. The real problem

RE: Marriage -- the Alito dissent

2013-07-21 Thread Volokh, Eugene
It’s been a while since this thread petered out, so I’d rather not burden list members with more on this unless there’s really a good deal of interest in reviving it. But in an earlier post I tried to offer two basis for limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples that should, I t