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Fri Nov 14, 2014, 12:34 AM Nov 2014

Boston Globe Editorial:Supreme Court should make gay marriage a national right

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/11/08/supreme-court-should-make-gay-marriage-national-right/XDtY470jxDXcblDj9loxCO/story.html

"IN SEPTEMBER, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience at the University of Minnesota Law School that the public should pay close attention to any upcoming decision on state gay marriage bans in the Sixth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals. A decision by the federal appeals court in Cincinnati allowing same-sex marriage bans to stand, she said, would mean “there will be some urgency” for the Supreme Court to step in and make a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage — something that the justices so far have dodged."
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