ADF on flawed marriage attack: Minn., U.S. Supreme Courts have already settled it

ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE
August 18, 2011 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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ADF on flawed marriage attack:  Minn., U.S. Supreme Courts have already settled it

Brief explains that judge’s dismissal of attack on Minn. marriage laws rightly cited previous Minn., U.S. high court decisions

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief Wednesday on behalf of the Minnesota Family Council defending a state court’s decision, now on appeal, to dismiss a lawsuit that attacked state laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The brief affirms the court’s finding that both the Minnesota Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, in a previous lawsuit, already rejected every major constitutional challenge to Minnesota laws that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The brief also provides numerous other reasons in favor of affirming dismissal of the more recent lawsuit.

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Case Name:  Benson v. Alverson
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