Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Religion & Law Blogs -> Constitutionally Correct

Religion & Law

: Constitutionally Correct

?Gay Marriage: The case from the left?

By Alliance Alert

Newsweek: "The defense argues that Prop 8 is plainly constitutional on majoritarian grounds. 'In America, we respect the results of fair elections,' read a press release by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, which submitted a brief in support of the defense. 'The will of the people expressed in Proposition 8, which restored the definition of marriage to the California Constitution, should be respected. The Constitution itself makes it clear that the people have this authority' . . . Boies responds, 'the very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).