Today, starting at around 10:15 a.m. EST, the U. S. Supreme Court will hear an hour long argument in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 (Prop 8) which amended the state constitution to ban same-sex marriages. Prop 8 was passed by 52 percent of California voters just months after the California Supreme Court endorsed same sex marriages. However, an admitted homosexual San Francisco federal judge held the ban unconstitutional, and his ruling was subsequently upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed a joint Friend of the Court brief with Advocates for Faith and Freedom in support of Prop 8 and traditional marriage. Our brief was filed on behalf of TMLC and California County Clerk Chuck Storey, the lone government figure to defend Prop 8. TMLC opposed any redefinition of marriage that would include same-sex marriages. Our brief stated in part:
“…the traditional definition of marriage represents the recognition of the basic biological reality that male-female sexual relations, and only male-female sexual relations, can produce a pregnancy and childbirth. Appreciation of this difference is not discrimination, it is acknowledgment of the facts of life.”
Click here to read the entire brief.
The Court is expected to render its decision in the case in June of this year.