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Pro and anti-Proposition 8 protesters rally in front of the San Francisco City Hall as the California Supreme Court holds a session in the to determine the definition of marriage (Strauss v. Horton cases). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Supreme Court ’s ruling on Proposition 8 has me feeling like that about our legal system. the history of Proposition 8 . To summarize, Californians passed a law in 2000 saying that marriage was between a man and a woman, but authorizing same sex domestic partnerships with all the benefits of marriage except the word  marriage . Four years later an unelected county clerk in San Francisco started giving out marriage licenses to same sex couples, and this lasted for five months until the State Supreme Court stopped it. Then four years later (2008), the court reversed itself, saying the 2000 law was unconstitutional. Christians were essentially told if they wanted to define marriage, they needed a constitutional amendment to do that. Which is wha

WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 28, 2013 ( Family Research Council ) - I’ve been going to pro-life marches since 1981, so I’m getting used to the drill. Still, this week’s  March for Marriage  in Washington, D.C. promised to be different in many ways. It was slated to coincide with the  U.S.Supreme Court ’s oral arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act and on California’s Proposition 8 . The media says Prop 8 was designed to “ban” homosexuals from marrying. It was designed for no such thing. As was the federal Defense of Marriage Act , Prop 8 was designed to protect an institution that is under attack. The media puts us in the "anti" position. That’s typical. We’re said to be anti-abortion when we say we are pro-life. We have this odd notion that the child in the womb should not be killed. If we came out against hanging, I guess the media would call us anti-gravity. I arrived early on the Mall for the March, so I ducked into the great red Smithsonian Castle for a cup of coffe