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Same-Sex Marriage: The Fight to Shape “the Next Shoe”

Posted on September 7, 2014, 10:01 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Judge Feldman tried to draw comfort from the fact that Windsor did not employ the magic phrases “intermediate scrutiny” or “heightened scrutiny.” I would liken that comfort to saying that it’s anybody’s game with two out at the bottom of the ninth inning when the score is 20-0.

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