ADF: Federal court right to uphold Louisianans' freedom to preserve marriage

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Byron Babione regarding a federal court’s decision Wednesday in Robicheaux v. Caldwell to uphold the freedom of Louisianans to preserve marriage in their laws:

“The people of Louisiana – and the people of every state – should continue to have the authority to affirm marriage as the union of a man and a woman in their laws. The district court in this case was right to conclude, as the U.S. Supreme Court did in its Windsor decision last year, that marriage law is the business of the states. We concur with the district court’s observation that ‘Louisiana is acting squarely within the scope of its traditional authority, as underscored by Justice Kennedy’ in the Windsor decision.”

Recently, a Tennessee court issued a decision that upheld that state’s laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.