Church and State
Family
John Stevens responds to Prof. Daniel Crane’s article on privatizing marriage
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John Stevens
- July 19, 2008
- advocate
- California Supreme Court Marriage Amendment
- christian argument
- Christianity
- conscience
- constitutional amendments
- gay marriage
- homosexual marriage
- marriage
- private institutions
- professor crane
- religious affiliation
- same sex union
- same sex unions
- Same-Sex Marriage
- worship services
John V. Stevens, Sr., an experienced religious liberty advocate, responds to Professor Crane’s article “A Judeo-Christian Argument for Privatizing Marriage” from his perspective as a Seventh-day Adventist. He has provided his kind permission to reproduce it here. I hope that this can be a springboard for discussion on this important issue facing all Americans regardless […]
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Civil Rights
Constitution
Current Events
Family
Marriage Amendment: In California, your state constitutional rights are in the hands of your neighbors
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Michael Peabody
- June 22, 2008
- Akhil Amar
- ballot initiative
- California Constitution
- California Secretary of State
- California Supreme Court Marriage Amendment
- gay marriage
- Majoritarian
- Majoritarianism
- Michael Dorf
- Opinion
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Sunday Closing Laws
- Sunday Rest Laws
- tyranny of the majority
- Vikram Amar
There has been much discussion about the California ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriages from a moral / social / religious perspective, but not much about the concept of overturning court decisions by majority vote. Vikram David Amar at Findlaw writes in a post entitled, “The California Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Opinion: The People […]
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