Religion & Law

Ken Starr, Bill Clinton, and the California Supreme Court on the meaning of ?is?

By ADF Alliance Alert

"The California Supreme Court is weighing an incendiary question: Should it recognize the gay couples who married last year, when same-sex marriage was briefly legal? . . . The wording of Proposition 8 is concise: 'Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.' So interpreting the intent of that law depends, as Justice Carlos Moreno noted in court earlier this month, on what 'is' means."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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