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The Wisdom of Upholding Tradition
Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/20/12 | Girgis, Anderson and George

Posted on 11/30/2012 11:33:00 AM PST by DontTreadFred

The U.S. Supreme Court decides next week whether to hear challenges to laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of a man and a woman. It does so after two different electoral outcomes. In May, North Carolinians voted to amend their state constitution to protect the conjugal definition of marriage, a definition that 41 states retain. But on Nov. 6, voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington state endorsed a revisionist view of marriage as the union of any two adults.

How should the Supreme Court decide? How should voters?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: conservatism; marriage
This is the best defense of marriage that I have read in a long time.
1 posted on 11/30/2012 11:33:07 AM PST by DontTreadFred
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To: DontTreadFred

Proverbs 22:28(KJV)
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set


2 posted on 11/30/2012 11:37:33 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: DontTreadFred

The left would have us abandon thousands of years of law and tradition to satisfy a tiny minority of people.


3 posted on 11/30/2012 12:13:25 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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To: DontTreadFred

Roberts is wetting himself already.


4 posted on 11/30/2012 2:20:02 PM PST by Arm_Bears (The MSM lies about conservatives; and it lies about liberals.)
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