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NOM President Brian Brown on the NRO Corner
Here’s the opening from NOM President Brian Brown’s column at National Review Online this morning. Read the whole thing here
As the lawyers wind up their final arguments, and we wait for the trial judge to issue his decision in California’s gay-marriage case, a key civil-rights issue is at stake. Gay-marriage advocates are now asking federal courts to invalidate Prop 8, a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman. They are asking federal courts to invent a fundamental right to gay marriage. If they succeed, gay marriage will become law, not only in California but in every state in the United States.
Gay-marriage advocates are wrong in what they are asking the federal courts to do. But they are right about one thing: The case is indeed about a fundamental civil right — but not the one they are asserting. It is about the right to vote to protect marriage.
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