Reuters/Jonathan Ernst - Chase Hardin (L) and Sam Knode (2nd L) join gay marriage supporters and court watchers hoping for U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the cases against California's gay marriage ban known as Prop 8 and the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), outside the court building in Washington, June 25, 2013
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Supreme Court Tips the Gay Marriage Scales
June 26, 2013, Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch takes a closer look at the Supreme Court's twin rulings on gay marriage, where the court overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act, but declined to make same-sex marriage a constitutional right.