WASHINGTON Opening the door to a potentially historic step in the nation’s gay rights movement, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide two constitutional challenges involving same-sex marriage.
The justices will hear arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which asks whether the Constitution’s 14th Amendment bars California from defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The second challenge is U.S. v. Windsor, raising the question of whether §3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment as applied to same-sex couples who are legally married under their state laws.
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