What might happen?

Same-sex marriage

before the supreme court

In the next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two landmark cases concerning same-sex marriageHollingsworth v. Perry (a challenge to Proposition 8, California’s same-sex-marriage ban) and United States v. Windsor (a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, or doma, which bars the federal government from recognizing state-sanctioned same-sex marriages). Click the buttons below to explore the possible results. (Note: there are a handful of other, legally complex but theoretically possible outcomes. Click here for more information.)