Hollingsworth v. Perry
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the Court
*2659 Chief Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.
*697 The public is currently engaged in an active political debate over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to *698 marry. That question has also given rise to litigation. In this case, petitioners, who oppose same-sex marriage, ask us to decide whether the Equal Protection Clause "prohibits the State of California from defining marriage as the union of a *699 man and a woman." Pet. for Cert. i. Respondents, same-sex couples who wish to marry, view the issue in somewhat different terms: For them, it is whether California-having previously…
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