{"id":170,"date":"2013-10-31T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/wordpress\/?p=170"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:01:31","slug":"clinton-quoted-in-slate-on-effect-of-tribal-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Quoted in Slate on Effect of Tribal Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>10\/29\/2013<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.law.asu.edu\/Portals\/31\/Images\/Faculty\/Clinton.Robert-PREFERRED---FOR-WEB.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Robert Clinton<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.law.asu.edu\/Apps\/Faculty\/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=286\">Robert Clinton<\/a>, Foundation Professor of Law, recently was quoted in an article about a Native American gay wedding written by Mark Joseph Stern for Slate magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The article, \u201cHow Did a Gay Couple Legally Marry in Oklahoma?\u201d tells the story of two Native American men who were wed under tribal law in a state where same-sex marriage remains formally banned.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning whether the marriage will be recognized by the state of Oklahoma, Clinton said the current patchwork of marriage laws presents an intriguing ambiguity. He said that as a general rule, every state grants respects other states\u2019 laws and rulings, but added that in 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a state\u2019s right to ignore another state\u2019s law if it seriously contravened its own\u2014the so-called public-policy exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public-policy exception has never been litigated in application to gay marriage, but it seems possible that tribal gay marriages should be recognized in most states that don\u2019t have strong public policy to the contrary,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/outward\/2013\/10\/25\/native_american_gay_marriage_is_legal_in_oklahoma_how_does_that_work.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton teaches and writes about federal Indian law, tribal law, Native American history, constitutional law, federal courts, cyberspace law, copyrights and civil procedure. He is an Affiliated Faculty member of the ASU American Indian Studies Program. He also is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Law, Science &amp; Innovation.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/29\/2013 Robert Clinton Robert Clinton, Foundation Professor of Law, recently was quoted in an article about a Native American gay wedding written by Mark Joseph Stern for Slate magazine. The article, \u201cHow Did a Gay Couple Legally Marry in Oklahoma?\u201d tells the story of two Native American men who were wed under tribal law in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitutional-law","category-indian-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robert-clinton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}