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On the recordJuly 9, 2015
The essence is marriage is reserved between one man and one woman. It is a very simple definition, a very historical definition, and it was adopted by 417,675. Do you know what was interesting? I never once told the State of Kansas that, if five people wanted it, that was the rule of law in Kansas--no. We had to go through an open process, have the debate, have the campaign, get it through the legislature. We tried 2 years in a row; it didn't happen. Finally, in 2005, it got on the ballot. It went up. Everybody had their up and down American experiment of democracy and decided. I will tell you at the time--and Steve understands this, my Congressman--that people said: We don't need to do that. The Court would never overrule that. There is nowhere that is in the Constitution. It is very clear; marriage is between a man and a woman. That is the thing, marriage predates government. No matter what these five unelected lawyers appointed for life--with full benefits, I might add, and health care--outside of ObamaCare, that is another issue--no matter what they say, they are not changing what a marriage is.
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Tim Huelskamp
Kansas

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