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⏲ Duration: 34 min 48 sec
✓ Published: 23-Nov-2021
✓ Published: 23-Nov-2021
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Author and journalist Sasha Issenberg discusses The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know.nnIt is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify
Author and journalist Sasha Issenberg discusses The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know.nnIt is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify
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