Same Sex Marriage

Supporters of gay marriage outside of the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC

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

Blog Post

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.

Recent Activity

Refine by: Social Policy | Marriage and Family Formation | U.S. Politics | Law and Security

In the News

We are not asking, gay marriage advocates, for the right to marry everybody or anybody, just to marry somebody. We're asking to have that opportunity.
May 31, 2012, Jonathan Rauch, National Public Radio
In the News

We've had these successive movements of social change, from African-Americans, then feminism and now gay rights, and each one seems to happen faster than the last and you wonder what's going on there...We're seeing a shift in public morality.
May 11, 2012, Jonathan Rauch, New York Times
Interview | Talk of the Nation, NPR

Arriving at a Compromise on Gay Marriage

March 2, 2009, David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch

Get Updates