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California?s top court upholds Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage

By ADF Alliance Alert

Christian Science Monitor: The California Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to uphold a statewide ballot initiative that limits marriage to heterosexual couples, while at the same time preserving 18,000 same-sex marriages that took place before the measure was passed last year . . . "The California Supreme Court arrived at the only correct conclusion available: The people of California have a fundamental right to amend their own constitution," said Austin Nimocks, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, a group that opposes same-sex marriages, in a statement. "This is the second time California has voted to protect marriage. Once again, when marriage goes before the voters, they affirm that marriage means one man and one woman. All 30 states that have voted on whether to affirm marriage as one man and one woman in their state constitutions have done so."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).