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DC Voters: Let Us Vote on Marriage

By ADF Alliance Alert

Heritage Foundation Blog: According to Brian Raum, Senior Legal Counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, ?Marriage didn?t violate the Human Rights Act when the HRA passed 32 years ago, and it doesn?t now. That is simply a political argument meant to prevent the people from voting.? Raum states that ?[m]arriage pre-existed the Human Rights Act by centuries in the district. They have co-existed for a generation without conflict . . . . The HRA has never required the redefinition of marriage or the recognition of non-marriages. Opponents of the referendum have twisted a law to impose their agenda without the people?s consent.?

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).