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Tennessee?s ?Natural Meaning? Law Faces Court Challenge

By Jacob Gershman

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A new Tennessee law requires judges to interpret undefined words in the Tennessee Code by their ?natural and ordinary meaning.? Four days after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed the legislation, it?s come under a legal challenge from same-sex couples concerned about how it would apply it to words such as ?husband,? ?wife,? ?father,? ?mother,? ?woman? [?]

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