The Marriage Consensus Grows in the U.S., as the people—the citizens—not the courts—of 42 states (so far), and the federal government, have now affirmed their belief in traditional marriage.
Jeff Jacoby writes:
Every time the question of same-sex marriage is put before the public, the public emphatically says no. In 13 states this year—in Missouri on Aug. 3, Louisiana on Sept. 18, and Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah, and Oregon on Nov. 2—voters were faced with proposed constitutional amendments limiting marriage to one man and one woman. In all 13 the amendments were approved, by majorities ranging from 57 percent (Oregon) to 86 percent (Mississippi).
2004 was no anomaly. In 2002, voters in Nevada approved a similar constitutional amendment. So did voters in Nebraska in 2000, and in Alaska and Hawaii in 1998. Each time, the margin of victory was huge. Same-sex marriage has also been tested at the polls in California. In March 2000, 4.6 million Californians—61.5 percent—approved Proposition 22, a statute defining marriage as an opposite-sex institution.
Meanwhile, dozens of state legislatures have enacted defense-of-marriage acts, many modeled on the law passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1996. In all, 42 states and the federal government have confirmed the timeless definition of marriage in law, a powerful democratic response to what is manifestly the will of the American people.]
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