Kennedy Questions Whether Court Should Rule on Marriage

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The U.S. Supreme Court raised the prospect that it will decline to say whether the Constitution gives gays the right to marry, in an argument that revealed a chasm among the justices on one of the country’s most divisive issues.

A decision to back out of the case would be an anticlimax to a clash billed as potentially the biggest civil-rights dispute in decades. It would let same-sex marriage resume in California, without directly affecting the rest of the country.