“I trust the Constitution,” Edie Windsor told BuzzFeed reporter Chris Geidner in an interview for his recent profile of the 83-year-old whose lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the Supreme Court this March. “Sometimes there’s a mistake, but mostly we move forward. I think we’re going to win just because I think justice will prevail. Is that crazy?”
Edie Windsor’s faith in the Constitution is well-placed, I think, and a sign of how long-term her thinking about the marriage equality issue is: In the end it isn’t really the Supreme Court or even one specific case that will determine whether LGBT Americans are provided with full equality; it is the Constitution, a document that holds within it the possibility of future equality even if the generations before ours would never have read it that way. To borrow an idea from the great Walt Whitman, the U.S. Constitution contains multitudes.
But this is 2013, not some unspecified and more enlightened year of the future, and the U.S. Supreme Court will be asked this March what the Constitution has to say about Proposition 8, the Defense of Marriage Act and marriage equality in general.
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