It has to do with the definition of marriage as one man, one woman.
Mr. SCOTT GHERKIN: In the Lord's eyes, I think marriage is a man and a woman.
"Marriage between a man and a woman is what God wanted, " he said.
"The reality of marriage between one man and one woman will not disappear as the result of any legislative change, " it says.
They also favor preservation of the family rooted in marriage between one man and one woman as the key building block of a healthy, democratic society.
Hirsi Ali first fled to the Netherlands as a refugee from Somalia in 1992 after declining to submit to a forced marriage to a man she did not know.
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The referendum, which gained 52% support, called for the state's constitution to be amended to include the stipulation that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised".
In fact, those marriage amendments that I supported, that would keep marriage of a man and a woman, out ran Mitt Romney in those four liberal states by an average of five points.
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North Carolina (where the Democrats will hold their convention this summer) voted overwhelmingly in favour of a constitutional amendment to make marriage between one man and one woman the only legal union the state will recognise.
"There is no evidence that gay teens are better off in Massachusetts, a state that has gay marriage, than they are in Wisconsin, a state which has passed a marriage amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman, " she said in an e-mail response to CNN.
For them, real change means: supporting abortion on demand without apology, abandoning traditional marriage between one man and one woman, embracing government growth as the key to American success, agreeing to higher taxes every year to pay for government expansion, and endorsing the enlightened policies of European socialism.
That was until 2012, when his home state of North Carolina added to the ballot a constitutional amendment referendum specifically banning same-sex unions and defining marriage between a man and a woman as the only valid domestic legal union in the state, even though same-sex unions had never been recognized in the state to begin with.
If the Supreme Court declares a constitutional right to marriage other than one-man, one-woman, then all traditional marriage laws in all 50 states will be invalid, and there will be a serious debate (already in a lower federal court) of whether polygamists also have a constitutional right to national recognition.
President Barack Obama, who said during his 2008 campaign that marriage was "between a man and a woman, " in May declared his support for same-sex marriage, and the administration has now put its weight behind supporters of gay marriage before the Supreme Court.
" A 13-year-old girl burned herself to death "to escape forcible marriage to an adult man.
He then declared a belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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In 1998 the state passed a law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
The proposition, which added an amendment to the state constitution, defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
But the federal Defense of Marriage Act signed by President Clinton defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
Blatant discrimination in the shape of the Defence of Marriage Act enshrines in law that marriage is between a man and a woman.
One involves the federal the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman and was supported by Portman.
Eckhardt testified that while she believes marriage is between a man and woman, she would never allow her personal views to influence her treatment of students.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear another case on same-sex marriage: a challenge to a federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman only.
Obama himself has stated that he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, a view that also happens to be shared by Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
For instance, Mr Obama favoured same-sex marriage in 1996, only to say in 2004 when running for the Senate that he believed marriage is between a man and a woman.
And I am very much in favor of marriage defined as one man and one woman, and I'm voting for that amendment, urging and encouraging people to do so in Virginia.
Justices will also hear arguments in a related case concerning the constitutionality of a provision in the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
And it specifically refused to argue the constitutional right for same-sex couples to wed should be extended to the 41 states that currently define marriage as between one man and one woman.
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