Kentucky’s failure to recognize marriages of same-sex couples validly married outside of Kentucky treated gay and lesbian persons differently in a way that demeaned them; and Kentucky’s interest in preserving “state’s institution of traditional marriage,” standing alone, was not rational basis.
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/KYMarriage.pdf
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