 | Kathleen A. Lahey, Kevin Alderson - 2004 - 382 páginas
...justify shutting the door to civil marriage to a person who wishes to marry someone of the same sex. 'The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...rooted in persistent prejudices against persons who are (or who are believed to be) homosexual. ... Limiting the protections, benefits, and obligations of... | |
 | Jerry Hillenburg - 2004 - 58 páginas
...America. Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall made this statement recently: "The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...segment of the community for no rational reason." She then offered this summary: "Gay marriage is good and you're nuts if you don't think so," On February... | |
 | James Perkins - 2004 - 136 páginas
...highlights from the decision follow (with all emphasis added). • Barring same-sex civil marriage "works a deep and scarring hardship on a very real segment of the community for no rational reason." (Id. at 968.) • Support for traditional marriage "is rooted in persistent prejudices against persons... | |
 | Kathleen E. Hull - 2006
...that none of these goals constituted a rational basis for excluding same-sex couples from marriage. "The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...segment of the community for no rational reason," the court concluded, ordering the state to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on May 17,... | |
 | William Stacy Johnson - 2006 - 341 páginas
...Massachusetts Court decided that discrimination against gays and lesbians is irrational. Said the court: "The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...segment of the community for no rational reason." 119 In declining to apply heightened scrutiny, the Goodridge court was following the US Supreme Court's... | |
 | Sean Cahill, Sarah Tobias - 2006 - 190 páginas
...equal protection provisions of the Massachusetts Constitution, to marry the person of their choice. "The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...segment of the community for no rational reason," wrote Chief Justice Margaret Marshall in the court's opinion. She continued, "Limiting the protections,... | |
 | Linda C. McClain - 2006 - 402 páginas
..."offends the dignity of persons in same-sex relationships."103 The Goodridge court similarly concluded: "The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...very real segment of the community for no rational reason."104 The Department's failure to offer any such reason led the court to conclude that "persistent... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - 2007 - 428 páginas
...justify shutting the door to civil marriage to a person -who wishes to marry someone of the same sex. The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...rooted in persistent prejudices against persons who are (or who are believed to be) homosexual. "The Constitution cannot control such prejudices but neither... | |
 | Stefan Hinterholzer - 2007 - 25 páginas
...constitution's guarantees of equality and due process. Denial of the right to marry, the Court explained, 'works a deep and scarring hardship on a very real segment of the community for no rational reason.' Moreover, the harm to gays and lesbians, the Court said, is not only the harm that comes from the denial... | |
 | George E. Connor, Christopher W. Hammons - 2008 - 849 páginas
...prohibition against gay marriage, like earlier restrictions on interracial marriage, was rooted in prejudice: "The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship...rooted in persistent prejudices against persons who are (or who are believed to be) homosexual."15 Thus, the Goodridge decision can be seen as an expansion... | |
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The marriage ban works a deep and scarring hardship on a very real segment of the community for no rational reason. The absence of any reasonable relationship between, on the one hand, an absolute disqualification of same-sex couples who wish to enter... 