same-sex divorce is already keeping legal minds busy. herma hill kay, the former dean of the law school at the university of california at berkeley, argues in a forthcoming article in the king's college law journal that american states are not prohibited by federal law from recognising same-sex marriages performed in other states. therefore, she says, they should be able to grant same-sex divorces—and even states that oppose gay marriage may have an interest in doing so, because they would be ending something they view as a problem in the first place. if conservative states refuse to do so, they will make the marriages even more binding than those between heterosexuals.
- "lawyers' delight," economist april 3, 2004
posted April 05, 2004 in politics, sex. 200320022001