Here at the Monkey Cage, I’ve attempted to put the Supreme Court’s consideration of same-sex marriage rights into perspective by comparing public opinion on the issue to two other social controversies addressed by the Court in landmark decisions in the past: interracial marriage (in Loving v. Virginia, 1967) and abortion rights (Roe v. Wade, 1973). …
But due to recent developments, the issue of same-sex marriage is now different from that of both interracial marriage and abortion in a critical way. CONT.
Patrick J. Egan (NYU), The Monkey Cage