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We talk often about how marriage is a civil right, affirmed by . But what about the importance of marriage throughout history?
As Harvard University History Professor testified during the Prop. 8 trial:
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“[T]he fact that the state is involved in granting these kinds of benefits and legitimacy to the marital family tends to lend a prestige, a status to that institution that no informal marriage has ever approximated.”
Dr. Cott, who has written four books and a slew of , is an expert 聽on the history of family, marriage and citizenship, and one of the Ted Olson and David Boies called to testify about the cultural, historical, economic, psychological and sociological importance of marriage equality.
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