Huffington Post: Supreme New Year's Resolution: Stop the Harm to Families of Denying the Freedom to Marry

Jeffrey S. Trachtman published a blog post in the Huffington Post explaining the importance of the Supreme Court granting review in one of the pending marriage equality cases and affirming the freedom to marry nationally. The piece echoed Kramer Levin's recently filed amicus curiae brief in stressing the severe harm caused by marriage discrimination to same-sex couples and their families. The brief was filed on behalf of Freedom to Marry, Family Equality Council, PFLAG, COLAGE, and Equality Federation. Like the brief, Trachtman's blog post catalogues a wide range of injuries caused by marriage discrimination, including exclusion from hundreds of important state and federal protections, benefits, and responsibilities; dignitary harm based on the government’s message that the relationships of same-sex couples are less worthy of respect and recognition – a particularly humiliating message to the children of such couples; and further injury caused even to legally married couples when they move or return to states that bar recognition of their marriages.