By Theodore B. Olson
Together
with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I
am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California's
Proposition 8—the voter-approved measure that overturned California's
constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex.
My
involvement in this case has generated a certain degree of
consternation among conservatives. How could a politically active,
lifelong Republican, a veteran of the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush
administrations, challenge the "traditional" definition of marriage and
press for an "activist" interpretation of the Constitution to create
another "new" constitutional right?
My answer to this seeming
conundrum rests on a lifetime of exposure to persons of different
backgrounds, histories, viewpoints, and intrinsic characteristics, and
on my rejection of what I see as superficially appealing but ultimately
false perceptions about our Constitution and its protection of equality
and fundamental rights. Read More.
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