Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg officiates same-sex ‘wedding’
WASHINGTON, D.C. , September 3, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – After the U.S. Supreme Court ’s June decision striking down key portions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had previously banned federal recognition of same-sex “ marriages ,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday became the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex “wedding.” Prior to June’s ruling, Ginsburg, now 80, had told The New Yorker magazine that while she would be open to officiating at gay nuptials, she had never been asked to do so, despite the fact that same-sex “marriage” has been legal in Washington, D.C. since 2009. "I don't think anybody's asking us, because of [the DOMA] cases," she told the magazine at the time. "No one in the gay-rights movement wants to risk having any member of the court be criticized or asked to recuse. So I think that's the reason no one has asked me." Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg But with the DOMA and Pro