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University of Pennsylvania Law School Penn Law: L egal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship 2007 Traditionalism, Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage Amy L . Wax University of P ennsylvania Law School, awax@ Follow this and additional works at : /faculty_scholarship Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Family Law Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Les ian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, and the Sexuality and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Wax, Amy L ., Traditionalism, Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage (2007). Faculty Sc holarship. Paper 758. /faculty_scholarship/758 This Article is brought to you for free and open access y Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship y an authorized administrator of Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact PennlawIR@. I I l • l ~ I , • , TRADITIO ALISM, PLURALISM, AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE • AmyL. Wax • • What makes the issue of same-sex marriage so hard? Many would deny the very premise of this question. Indeed, a prominent • journalist once assured me that there exists not a single respectable • argument against legal recognition of same·sex unions. Yet same-sex • marriage has failed to win approval, often by large margins, in every state in which it has been put to a vote. Clearly, many voters do not agree with my journalist friend. • It is not surprising that same-sex marriage generates