Courting Marriage 2014

Week of December 22, 2014
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Several major legal developments advanced marriage equality in the United States during the past 12 months. At the end of 2013, 14 states and the District of Columbia had opened civil marriage to same-gender couples. How did that number more than double this year?

Featured: Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fischer; 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Richard Posner, Ann Claire Williams and David Hamilton; legal eagles Camilla Taylor and Kenneth Falk: journalist Chris Gender; marriage equality activist Evan Wolfson; MSNBC's Rachel Maddow; The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer; Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert; U.S. House Speaker John Boehner; Newsy's Christian Bryant; NPR's Nina Totenberg; Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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