By US Daily Review Staff.
Family Research Council (FRC) today criticized a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which overturnedCalifornia’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. FRC filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the case, now known as Perry v. Brown.
Today’s ruling by a three-judge panel upheld a lower court decision by now-retired federal JudgeVaughn Walker in August 2010. Judge Walker later admitted he is himself a homosexual and has had a long-term partner, meaning that he potentially stood to personally benefit from the legalization of same-sex “marriage.”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement:
“Today’s decision was disappointing but not surprising, coming from the most liberal Circuit Court in the country. ThisHollywood-funded lawsuit, which seeks to impose San Francisco values on the entire country, may eventually reach the Supreme Court. This is not about constitutional governance but the insistence of a group of activists to force their will on their fellow citizens.
“This ruling substitute’s judicial tyranny for the will of the people, who in the majority of states have amended their constitutions, as California did, to preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
“However, we remain confident that in the end, the Supreme Court will reject the absurd argument that the authors of our Constitution created or even implieda ‘right’ to homosexual ‘marriage,’ and will instead uphold the right of the people to govern themselves.
“Voters in 31 states have voted to uphold the historic and natural definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Twenty-nine, a majority of American states, have actually inserted such a definition into the text of their state constitutions,” concluded Perkins.
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