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Equal Privacy: Sexual Orientation

Seth J. Chandler

The cases establishing constitutional protection for people based on sexual orientation mix both Equal Protection and Due Process arguments. Justice Kennedy's opinion in the marriage equality cases mixes it explicitly. What has changed to make these translations so compelling, even to otherwise conservative judges? Do the dissenters go too far in their outrage? -LL

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