Questions, answers about Supreme Court, gay ‘marriage’

Following are commonly asked questions about the Supreme Court’s two days of arguments in the gay “marriage” cases. Q: What issues were the justices deciding? A: The constitutionality of two laws: the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8. Passed and signed into law in 1996, DOMA has two main sections: 1) It gives states the option…