The Supreme Court will determine the scope of same-gender marriage in groundbreaking cases it will hear next year.
After weeks of anxious waiting by LGBT-rights advocates, U.S. Supreme Court justices declared that they will weigh in on the growing same-gender marriage debate. The court announced on Friday afternoon that it will hear two cases that have challenged the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 legislation, both of which defined legal marriage as only between a man and a woman.
The outcome of these two major cases could have a sweeping impact on the definition of marriage in the United States and on same-gender couples’ right to wed.
