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Against Marriage Equality, June R. Carbone, Naomi Cahn
Against Marriage Equality, June R. Carbone, Naomi Cahn
June R Carbone
Marriage once rested on three overlapping systems of legal inequality. The first elevated men over women as heads of households, entrusting them with decision-making authority and duties of support. The second restricted access to marriage on the basis of race and sexual orientation. The third privileged marital intimate unions over nonmarital ones, reserving societal support for the former while stigmatizing and criminalizing the latter. Marriage law has now changed to recognize the equal status of men and women in managing family finances and assuming responsibility for children. With the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell, same-sex couples, like interracial couples …