On Tuesday supporters of traditional marriage filed a reply brief with the U.S. Supreme Court answering arguments by opponents of California’s Proposition 8.
According to Alliance Defending Freedom, the brief explains why the state’s marriage amendment is constitutional and should be upheld as such.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on this case will likely have implications for marriage amendments in other states–including Arkansas.
A popular pollster has distorted its statistics on support for same-sex “marriage” among Catholics, according to Family Research Council.
According to FRC’s report, Quinnipiac University lumped survey responses from practicing and non-practicing Catholics together on the issue of same-sex “marriage”–even though the university was careful to distinguish between the two when it came to other issues.
The result was a set of statistics showing the majority of “Catholics” support the redefinition of marriage. A closer inspection of the numbers, however, shows the majority of practicing Catholics do not support same-sex “marriage.”
In other words, the poll purports to show Catholics have shifted from opposing to supporting same-sex “marriage” when no such shift has actually happened.
You can read more by visiting Family Research Council’s website.
From Alliance Defending Freedom:
Business Week: “A man cannot enter into the state of marriage as defined with another man just as a woman cannot enter into the state of marriage with another woman,” the judge wrote. “The redress for these circumstances lies in the political and not the legal arena.” . . . Sex discrimination depends on a comparison between the treatment of the person of one sex with the treatment of the opposite sex, Jagot wrote in her ruling. “There cannot be discrimination by reason of the sex of a person because in all cases the treatment of the person of the opposite sex is the same,” she wrote.| Margan v President, Australian Human Rights Commission [2013] FCA 109