This is a story from last week that I meant to make an entry about, but I never got to it. I think it’s a good news story for pro-traditional-marriage folks like me and millions of other Canadians just like me. I mean if it can happen in a bastion of liberalism like the state of Oregon, it can happen here.
The background to this story includes the fact that liberal Oregonians voted for a BAN on gay marriage in a referendum last year. (By the way, they also voted against making “medical marijuana” legal there too).
The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday voided nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay and lesbian couples last year in Multnomah County, ruling that a single county did not have the authority to act on a statewide issue.
The court noted that Oregonians last November had passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual institution. Oregon was one of 11 states to adopt such an amendment.
Conservative groups said the court ruling on top of the voter-approved amendment once and for all resolved the issue of same-sex marriage in the state.
“It’s over and done,” said Tim Nashif, director of the Defense of Marriage Coalition. “Marriage has been protected in Oregon.”
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[…] The state attorney general’s office said in a statement that the ruling did not address the issue of civil unions and appeared to leave the door open for legislators to decide.
“That issue still needs to be resolved, either through the courts or the Legislature,” said Kevin Neely, spokesman for the attorney general. “The battle will still rage.”
Meanwhile, conservative groups are bracing for a continued fight.
“Same-sex civil unions are gay marriage by another name, and they are just as wrong and just as dangerous,” said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, which is affiliated with Concerned Women for America, a conservative public-policy organization in Washington, D.C.
Such unions would “put the government’s stamp of approval on homosexuality,” Knight said. “It will then be imposed on everyone … and we will oppose it.”
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