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No right to “homosexual marriage” is found in the Constitution

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U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) To many people it will seem obvious that the US Constitution , which says nothing at all about homosexual marriage , cannot be claimed to support any “right” to homosexual marriage. The US Supreme Court has not ruled on this issue, but several state courts have issued rulings. Most notably the Massachusetts, Connecticut,45 and Iowa supreme courts have now “found” a right to same-sex marriage in state constitutions that contained absolutely no mention at all of homosexual marriage. The California Supreme Court also created a “right” to same-sex marriage, but that decision was overturned when the voters in November 2008 passed Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that restored marriage as the union between one man and one woman. How could various courts “discover” same-sex “marriage” in their state constitutions? Or how could it ever be decreed by any federal court or by the US Supreme Court? Only if it were invented by