Single-Gender Marriage: A Religious Perspective
Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, Vol. 7, Pp. 429-84 (1998)
CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-19
57 Pages Posted: 11 Jul 2017
Date Written: 1998
Abstract
This Article will offer a religious perspective which is a response to the legal arguments in favor of single-gender marriage. Three arguments will be made: first, that the religious perspective identified and associated with the Roman Catholic tradition offers a fundamental basis for family life that has been proven to be beneficial to society as a whole, and to the message of revelation consigned to Christians by Jesus Christ; second, inasmuch as the religious perspective is being contradicted by judicial interpretation rather than through legislative process, a tyranny of judicial activism has and is subverting a public policy consensus; and third, an analysis of the Hawaiian decision Baehr v. Lewin, which presently prompts the debate over single-gender marriage, offers a compelling state interest to restrict the definition of marriage to those persons of the opposite gender.
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