“Marriage spans a vast divide: A successful lawyer leads what seems a normal life; But long ago she forged a lasting emotional bond with a man from the Aryan Brotherhood.” Joe Mozingo will have this lengthy article, the first in a three-part series, in Sunday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times. More information on the series is available at this link.

“Historians say marriage traditions have been fluid”: Today’s edition of The Sacramento Bee contains a front page article that begins, “What is traditional marriage? That question lies beneath the surface of the Proposition 8 debate. The measure that bans same-sex marriage in California, which is now being challenged in court, defines the union as between a man and a woman. This, supporters argue, is as religious precepts and social customs demand. It is traditional.”

And today in The New York Times, columnist Charles M. Blow has an op-ed entitled “Gay Marriage and a Moral Minority.”

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Justice Stevens shows no signs he is ready to quit” and “Pastor who helped get ‘under God’ in Pledge dies.”

“Poignant Videos of Victims Valid in Court; Justices Decline to Weigh Use of Such Portrayals”: Jerry Markon has this article today in The Washington Post.