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Prop 8 upheld

By Alliance Alert

World Magazine reports: "Jim Campbell, litigation counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said the court?s ruling merely went with precedent, since upholding a definition of marriage that has existed for almost all the state?s history is not a 'structural change to government' . . . The court may have previously defined 'equal protection' to apply to same-sex marriage but can no longer do so, said Campbell, since California voters have validly and legally defined marriage themselves: 'Equal protection under the California Constitution can no longer mean that same-sex couples must be given the opportunity to marry.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).