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California court hears closing arguments in same-sex marriage case
A landmark federal trial that could lead to a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry ended Wednesday with competing views about the traditional role of marriage and whether the battle represented the latest frontier of the nation's civil rights struggle.
Two stalwarts of Washington's conservative legal community argued before Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, but this time on opposite sides.
Walker is being asked to decide whether California voters violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection when they passed a referendum in November 2008 to amend the state constitution, defining marriage as between a man and a woman.