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Court Upholds Four States’ Same-Sex Marriage Bans

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Court Upholds Four States’ Same-Sex Marriage Bans

By a two-to-one vote, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati upheld the right of states to ban same-sex marriage, overturning lower court decisions in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that found such restrictions to be unconstitutional.

The long-awaited decision, written by Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, an appointee of President George W. Bush, ​contradicted rulings by four other federal circuit courts and appeared almost certain to force the Supreme Court to decide the same-sex marriage issue for the nation.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/us/appeals-court-upholds-same-sex-marriage-ban.html?emc=edit_na_20141106




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