Then Comes Marriage
United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
Roberta Kaplan with Lisa Dickey
W.W. Norton: 320 pp., $27.95
Early in "Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA," Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who won the DOMA case before the U.S. Supreme Court, writes about her wife, Rachel Lavine, and her feelings about marriage. "Rachel had been to a lot of straight weddings in her life," Kaplan tells us, "and even when she loved the bride and groom, she hated the weddings themselves because they made her feel excluded.