TIME: New legal strategy for Prop 8 supporters

Time: “But Cooper’s briefs shows that his full appeal will challenge that basic reading to its core. ‘From the dawn of the American Revolution, which was preached from the pulpits, to the abolitionist preachers who rallied the antislavery cause, to the religious leaders who inspired the civil rights movement, religion and morality have always played a prominent and entirely proper role in American political life,’ he wrote. ‘Nor can the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas be understood to have brought this long tradition to a grinding halt and to have effectively expelled from the political process Americans whose views on issues of profound social and cultural importance are entwined with their faith or moral values. Lawrence held only that moral disapproval of homosexual relationships could not justify a law criminalizing ‘the most private human conduct, sexual behavior, in the most private of places, the home.’ ” | The Brief

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