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The Constitution Versus the People: Legal Challenges to State Same-Sex Marriage Bans

BY ADAM HOOCK — On December 20, 2013, Judge Robert J. Shelby of the United States District Court for the District of Utah shocked the country when he issued an order in Kitchen v. Herbert declaring Utah’s statutory and state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. In […]