By Ryan T. Anderson, The Daily Signal
Does the U.S. Constitution require the states to redefine marriage? Earlier today a federal judge said no. Judge Martin L.C. Feldman upheld Louisiana’s constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman—as 78 percent of Louisiana voters did in 2004.
Feldman noted that Louisiana’s marriage law furthers two important interests: “linking children to an intact family formed by their biological parents, as specifically underscored by Justice Kennedy in Windsor” and “safeguarding that fundamental social change … is better cultivated through democratic consensus.” That is, Feldman noted the two central issues in this debate—the policy question: What is marriage, and the legal question: Who gets to define marriage.
Feldman ruled that, consistent with the U.S. Constitution, citizens and their elected officials should get to define marriage, and they can define it as the union of man and woman if they choose to. In response to those who argue that there is no rational basis for such marriage laws, Feldman writes: “The Court is persuaded that a meaning of what is marriage that has endured in history for thousands of years, and prevails in a majority of states today, is not universally irrational.”
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Marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman, a covenant with God, and Gays, Lesbians, Transgenered do not
qualify in the definition. If same sex couples want to marry, they will, however, not with the blessing of the State and God of the Holy Bible. There is 1 group of people who not only reject same sex marriage, but will kill same sex couples, and the group is: MUSLIMS of ISLAM, and to the marsh mellow preachers and people, beware, there is a Muslim near you for help.
JohnN, I don’t understand the last part of your last sentence. What do you mean?