Human Rights Campaign et al., Amici Curiae
Roberta A. Kaplan, Counsel of Record
The Human Rights Campaign, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights advocacy organization, is joined in this brief by 207,551 individuals. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 2015. Forty-five years ago in Minneapolis, two gay men sought a license to marry each other. Following the denial of their appeal by the Minnesota Supreme Court, this Court dismissed the appeal for “want of a substantial Federal question.” — Baker v. Nelson (1972). In 1986, this Court upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia statute that made it…
