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Pete Sessions: “If the Supreme Court found, as they indicated that they may in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, that marriage under the…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2004
If the Supreme Court found, as they indicated that they may in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, that marriage under the Due Process or Equal Protection clauses of the Constitution has to include same-sex marriages rather than just the traditional marriage form, will that not wipe out all of the constitutional amendments that are being passed in the States of America and all the statutes in America and the Defense of Marriage Act that we passed in this Congress?
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Discussing the implications of a potential Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.

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