Foreword
As evening fell on June 26, 2015, a crowd gathered to celebrate outside the White House in Washington, D.C. The building was bathed in rainbow lights, honoring the Supreme Court decision earlier that day establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriages. The Court’s 5-to-4 ruling marked the end of a long legal battle over the constitutionality of gay marriage. Over the past several decades, voters and legislatures in many States had enacted laws and constitutional amendments prohibiting their jurisdictions from issuing same-sex marriage licenses or recognizing such documents from other States. In 1996, the U.S. Congress also passed the Defense…
