This section reports on and explores the court cases and legal issues that directly affect the family in such areas as marriage, abortion, religious liberty, parental rights and the like. What does the latest court decision mean? How did we get to this point from previous cases? Which way are we headed? What can I do about it?
How many times since the enlightened four-justice majority of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court judicially decreed same-sex "marriage" in 2003 have we heard the activists' challenge: "How does my same-sex 'marriage' affect your heterosexual marriage?"
Prop. 8, among other things, is a serious attempt to reclaim control of the California Constitution by its citizens. It's partly about marriage, of course. But it is certainly also about the fundamental question of where ultimate constitutional authority rests.
Marriage decision sets up high court as the ultimate legislature in California.
A dispute over the use of a library meeting room for worship services may go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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