Anyone who thinks states should consider ratifying the proposed Federal Equal Rights Amendment should look at what just happened in New Mexico.
A judge there took their state’s equal right amendment, worded almost identically to the proposed federal amendment, and used it to allow same-sex marriage in that state.
Last June, just days before the U.S. Supreme Court struck part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, sociologists at Rice University published a significant study examining Americans’ attitudes toward same-sex marriage.
The study polled 1,300 random adults in 2006, asking them “The only legal marriage should be between one man and one woman. Agree? Neither Agree nor Disagree? Or Disagree?”
The folks conducting the study then polled the very same group of Americans 6 years later, asking them the same question.
The results were that in 2006, 57% of people said marriage ought to be the union of one man to one woman. In 2012, 53% of people agreed that’s how marriage ought to be defined. On its face, then, this study would seem to indicate support for traditional marriage fell by 4% from 2006 to 2012. That simply is not the case.
In this brief recording, Liberty Counsel’s Mett Staver shares several examples of ways same-sex marriage is already infringing religious liberty around the country.
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