Marriage in the News: Unintended Consequences

So, I was reading the news reports earlier and one article caught my eye. Apparently, the Michigan Supreme Court agreed to hear National Pride at Work v. Governor of Michigan on May 24th. What Is This Case? As you may recall in my series on Marriage Laws, Michigan added an amendment to their state constitution banning state government recognition of gay marriage. Apparently, the wording of that amendment has created some consequences that supporters of the same-sex marriage ban were not expecting. What Consequences? It seems that a lower court said that the amendment, voted on in 2004, bans not … Continue reading