The Human Rights Campaign, an organization that advocates for gay rights, issued an email on Friday lauding the announcement.
“A win in either of these cases would mark an incredible, decisive point in this movement’s history, one I’ve been working toward since I helped bring the Prop. 8 case as co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights,” the HRC wrote in an email.
Attitudes toward same-sex marriage are shifting. This spring President Obama endorsed gay marriage. An often cited Gallup polls shows that 53 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage compared to about 27 percent in 1996. Nine states now allow same-sex marriage. Six states legalized domestic partnership benefits.
CNN reports that oral arguments will likely be held in March, with a ruling by late June.
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