by Lynn D. Wardle

About the author: Lynn D. Wardle is a professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

The proposed restructuring of the family to legitimate homosexual family relations may be among the most heavily advocated family law reforms to be discussed in recent years. For example, I reviewed as much of the law review literature as I could find on the subject of same-sex marriage that had been published between January 1990 and December 1995. I found seventy-two articles, notes, comments, and essays about same-sex marriage published in law reviews available in North America, a nine-fold increase over the eight law review pieces on the same subject published in a similar period two decades earlier, when the topic was first seriously raised in litigation in the United States...