Our guest blogger is Tobias Barrington Wolff, a Professor of Law
at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Visiting
Professor at NYU School of Law. He served as Chair of the
National LGBT Policy Committee for the 2008 Presidential
Campaign of Barack Obama. The AP has a report today that
highlights one of the dilemmas that same-sex couples face from
discrimination under state and federal law. The story concerns
Angelique Naylor and Sabina Daly, a Texas couple who married in
Massachusetts in 2004, returned to Texas, and are now being
forced to struggle with state officials in order to secure a
divorce: After the joy of a wedding and the adoption of a baby
came arguments that couldn’t be resolved, leading Angelique
Naylor to file for divorce. That left her fighting both the
woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which
says a union granted in a state where same-sex marriage is legal
can’t be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it’s not. A
judge in Austin granted the divorce, but T