All Articles tagged Defense of Marriage Act

• State Constitutional Commentary
  November 11, 2011 EDT
  STATE CONSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING AND PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY: REVISITING BAKER V. STATE AND THE QUESTION OF GENDER IN THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY DEBATE
  Cheryl Hanna

  This essay suggests that the most under-appreciated opinion in Baker is Justice Denise Johnson‘s concurring opinion that states that denying same sex couples the right to marry is sex discrimination.

• New York Appeals
  May 05, 2009 EDT
  TO HARM, TO VICTIMIZE, AND TO DESTROY: THE UGLY REASON WHY THE CHAMBERS MAJORITY OPINION WAS SO RIGHT
  Matthew J. Skinner

  This comment critically confronts the analysis used in the court’s majority opinion in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.