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<p>December 06, 2010</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Root Truth #3</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Top Ten Gay Marriage False "Facts" ~ Part 1 <br /></strong><br />(Author: Frank Turek - From his article with the same name. Presented with Permission)<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p>When one judge overturned the will of more than seven million Californians last week (Aug.04, 2010) in <em>Perry vs. Schwarzenegger</em>, he listed 80 supposed “findings of fact” (FF) as evidence that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Many of those 80 findings are not facts at all. They’re lies or distortions.</p>
<p>Before we address the top ten false “facts” asserted by Judge Vaughn Walker, there is one <em>real</em> fact in his opinion that defeats the entire case for his opinion. Here it is: <br />“The evidence at trial shows that marriage in the United States traditionally has not been open to same-sex couples.”</p>
<p>Since that fact is unquestionably true, how can Judge Walker honestly declare that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment? Certainly no one in 1868 intended the Fourteenth Amendment to redefine marriage. Only the most tyrannical form of judicial activism can get Judge Walker to his conclusion.</p>
<p>Second, Prop 8 doesn’t violate the Fourteenth Amendment because every person in America already has equal marriage rights. We’re all playing by the same rules—we all have the same right to marry any non-related adult of the opposite sex. Those rules do not deny anyone “equal protection of the laws” because the qualifications to enter a marriage apply equally to everyone—every adult person has the same right to marry.</p>
<p>What about homosexuals? That leads us to Judge Walker’s first false “fact.”</p>
