Why that Texas judge was wrong to strike down Texas’ marriage law
February 26, 2014 ( Heritage ) - Yet another judge has struck down a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman . These rulings claim that the equal protection of the law requires the redefinition of marriage . It does not. State laws that reflect the truth about marriage should be ruled constitutional . U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia discarded the votes of 76 percent of Texans as he struck down Texas ’s 2005 constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of man and woman. In his opinion for the court, Garcia claims that the “court decision is not made in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature, but in compliance with the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.” He added that “without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our U.S. Constitution.” But this appeal to inequality fail...