The Supreme Court has just announced it will consider whether California’s ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional and whether Congress may withhold federal benefits from legally married same-sex couples by defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.
The court will hear arguments in the spring about one of the country’s most politically divisive social issues, with a decision by June.
Read more on the announcement here.
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The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.