Supreme Court reflects ‘modern marriage’

From The Washington Post (via Japan)

There’s a widow who was a pioneer of the “modern marriage,” and one who never wed. Two who have been divorced.

There is a husband who married relatively late in life and adopted two children. Another is a prolific procreator, with enough children to field a baseball team and enough grandchildren to form a basketball league.

One is in an interracial marriage, which would have been illegal in his state only 20 years before his wedding.

As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the American tradition of marriage, the justices themselves display a wide range of personal choices reflective of the modern experience.

In the court’s first full examination of same-sex marriage, the unifying theme of those defending traditional marriage is that government has an important interest in promoting marriage among heterosexual couples because of their reproductive ability.

But the issue comes before a court where four of the nine justices have never married or have had marriages that did not produce biological offspring.

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/25/world/supreme-court-reflects-modern-marriage/#.UVAtjr9Oyp0