Voices
DAVID
FONTANA
HUFFINGTON
04.07.13
MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES
When Morality Left
the Gay Marriage Debate
THE NATIONAL HEADLINES last
week were dominated by the two
days of oral arguments in the Supreme Court dedicated to the constitutional status of gay marriage.
How the Court will decide these
cases is difficult to predict. But it
is not too soon to draw another
conclusion: the language that the
Court used to talk about gay marriage this past week lacked the
polarizing moral denunciations
of homosexuality of the past. The
language the Court uses to debate
national issues matters — it can
both frame public discussions and
signal what the Court might be do-
Same-sex
marriage
supporters
rally in front
of the U.S.
Supreme
Court on
March 27,
2013, in
Washington,
D.C.