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inlawrev-20997	Hermann, Donald H. J.	Extending the Fundamental Right of Marriage to Same-Sex Couples: The United States Supreme Court Decision in Obergefell v. Hodges	2016	30	.pdf	application/pdf	14058	799	62	In considering a right to marry for same-sex couples,48 Kennedy asserted that “their immutable nature dictates that same-sex marriage is their only real path to this profound commitment,” which is only available to a couple through marriage.49 D. Changing Concepts of Marriage and Attitudes about Homosexuality The Court did not view marriage as an unchanging or fixed institution, rather: “The history of marriage is one of both continuity and change . . . Additional state courts as well as a number of federal district63 courts and courts of appeal found states prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying to be unconstitutional.64 A significant counter or reactive response to efforts to obtain access to marriage by same-sex couples was the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996, which defined marriage for all federal law purposes as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”	cache/inlawrev-20997.pdf	txt/inlawrev-20997.txt