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Corvino: Did the state create marriage?

By ADF Alliance Alert

John Corvino writes at 365Gay.com: Among the responses was a statement from Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Kentucky, chair of the U.S. Bishops? Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage. 'Marriage exists prior to the state and is not open to redefinition by the state,? Kurtz said. ?The role of the state, instead, is to respect and reinforce marriage.' . . . Archbishop Kurtz is right when he says that 'Marriage exists prior to the state.' He?s just wrong to think that it?s solely heterosexual.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 16, 2010 (boomark / email).