Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Tort Law Musings

Via my housemate, the following hypothetical:

At some point in the near future gay marriage becomes more widely recognized (say, in at least one of the following states: Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, or Utah). Two men marry, but after years of wedded bliss one is converted by a neighbor to a fundamentalist Christian sect and becomes an "ex-gay." If the neighbor intended to "cure" his neighbor of his sexuality by instigating the religious conversion, can the neighbor be sued for the tort of alienation of affection?