The Response to California’s Gay Marriage Ruling: How the Losing Side’s Tactics Harken Back to the Fight Over Racial Equality
David Vikram Amar has this commentary on Findlaw in which he writes:
. . . Although the analogy between racial minorities on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other, may not be perfect in the marriage context, a majority of California Justices embraced the comparison at least to some extent.
In this column, I will discuss two ways in which the response by the losing side in the California Supreme Court ruling over the past few weeks also brings to mind some of the images and important lessons of the racial equality movement . . .