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The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law

Religion Law

1998

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Catholic Judges In Capital Cases, John H. Garvey Jan 1998

Catholic Judges In Capital Cases, John H. Garvey

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Single Gender Marriage: A Religious Perspective, Raymond C. O'Brien Jan 1998

Single Gender Marriage: A Religious Perspective, Raymond C. O'Brien

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This Article will offer a religious perspective which is a response to the legal arguments in favor of single-gender marriage. Three arguments will be made: first, that the religious perspective identified and associated with the Roman Catholic tradition offers a fundamental basis for family life that has been proven to be beneficial to society as a whole, and to the message of revelation consigned to Christians by Jesus Christ; second, inasmuch as the religious perspective is being contradicted by judicial interpretation rather than through legislative process, a tyranny of judicial activism has and is subverting a public policy consensus; and …