FIRST-PERSON: In the states, stay the course
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--On a procedural vote, the U.S. Senate on July 14 defeated the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Such an amendment was necessitated by the November 2003 decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which created ex nihlio a right for homosexual partners to “marry.” Since May of this year, homosexual “marriages” have been performed in Massachusetts.
ANALYSIS: The implications of Lawrence v. Texas
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--In 1986, Michael Hardwick filed an action in federal court attempting to have the court declare Georgia's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional.
