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...friend-of-the-court brief, which was written by Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62, the group argues that the Nov. 18 decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health was unambiguous in its conclusion that the state must allow homosexual couples to marry...
...brief argues that any “retreat” from the November ruling would “risk gratuitously exposing the SJC to withering critique for having first taken a courageous and principled stand on a matter going to the core of both liberty and equality—but having then turned around and responded equivocally, at best, to the question whether the SJC actually meant what it had so recently said...
...statement on the HLS website, Tribe said he hopes the brief will make the SJC “sit up and listen,” noting that experts “spanning the ideological spectrum” signed the brief...
Those who celebrated the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in favor of gay marriage know that their most bitter battles lay ahead. The court’s Nov. 18 decision that the state must begin issuing marriage licenses to homosexual couples within 180 days is a historical watershed. But as in most great moments of social upheaval, progress only compounds the backlash among those determined to preserve the status...
Same-sex marriage is, at its heart, an issue of fairness. The benefits and special status that our government grants two people who choose to make their lives together cannot be restricted to those couples who differ in gender. As the SJC correctly identified, prohibiting gays and lesbians from marrying those they love repeats one of the ugliest and most persistent perversions of American civil society—it creates a second, inferior class of residents not entitled to the full protections and privileges of citizenship. It took too many years for America to realize that it was wrong...