Can New Jersey Punish Methodists for Marriage?
By Maggie Gallagher The headline news on the gay marriage issue is that on Tuesday, Maryland’s supreme court joined the growing list of state high courts upholding marriage as the union of husband and wife. The majority of the court held that sexual orientation is not a suspect class, that there is no scientific consensus that orientation is immutable, that marriage does not discriminate based on gender, that there is no fundamental right to same-sex marriage, that laws defining marriage as a union of husband and wife are substantially different from those banning interracial marriage, and that the historic link between marriage and procreation justifies the state’s definition of marriage as a union of husband and wife.
