by United Families International | Oct 22, 2013 | Same-Sex Attraction, Same-Sex Marriage, UFI Blog
Diane Robertson After the New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a stay on same-sex marriages, local officials began issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals at midnight Monday, Oct 21st. Governor Chris Christie rather than carry through with a promised appeal to the state...
by United Families International | Sep 28, 2013 | Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Marriage, UFI Blog
Diane Robertson New Jersey judge, Mary C. Jacobson, has become the first judge in the United States to cite the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA as a reason a state must legalize same-sex marriage. Judge Jacobson said that not doing so deprives same sex couples of...
by United Families International | Sep 4, 2013 | Same-Sex Marriage, UFI Blog
Diane Robertson The June 26th ruling from the Supreme Court, while essentially doing nothing other than striking down section 3 of DOMA has had a large effect on forwarding the legalization and recognition of gay marriage throughout the United States. Here’s what’s...
by United Families International | Jun 27, 2013 | Proposition 8, Same-Sex Marriage
Diane Robertson “Same-sex marriage presents a highly emotional and important question of public policy—but not a difficult question of constitutional law. The Constitution does not guarantee the right to enter into a same-sex marriage. Indeed, no provision of the...
by United Families International | Jun 25, 2013 | Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage
Diane Robertson For all of the people in the U.S. who have anxiously been awaiting SCOTUS’s ruling on marriage, tomorrow is the day. The Supreme Court will issue opinions on the three remaining cases of the spring session. After announcing today’s rulings,...