Federal judge swims upstream: No constitutional right to gay 'marriage'
A federal judge and his court decision have given new hope that traditional marriage will survive legal attacks by homosexual activists and sympathetic judges.
U.S. District Court Judge Juan Perez-Gimenez, in fact, suggested that other judges have taken liberty with the Windsor decision that was used by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
Reading from the judge's rule, Ryan Anderson of The Heritage Foundation pulled out the following quote in a Daily Signal story:
The Windsor opinion did not create a fundamental right to same gender marriage nor did it establish that state opposite-gender marriage regulations are amenable to federal constitutional challenges. If anything, Windsor stands for the opposite proposition: it reaffirms the States’ authority over marriage, buttressing Baker’s conclusion that marriage is simply not a federal question....
