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Published On: 10/18/2017

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Jim Campbell regarding two marriage-related court decisions handed down this week: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s order in Waters v. Ricketts to suspend a district judge’s decision that struck down Nebraska’s laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision in In re: Alan L. King that reinstated that state’s marriage laws:

 

“The people of Nebraska, Alabama, and every state should remain free to affirm marriage as the union of a man and a woman in their laws. The courts should respect the freedom of the people to debate this important issue and decide it as a community. The Constitution does not demand that one irreversible view of marriage be forced on all the states.”

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