Pete Sessions: “as we finish up today, I want to share a few thoughts on the problem we have with the activist courts redefining…”

“as we finish up today, I want to share a few thoughts on the problem we have with the activist courts redefining marriage. Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. It is not a little matter. It is a very big matter. It is a matter the American people have a right to be asked about. It is a matter the American people have a right to be engaged in. It is an institution that no one can dispute is central to American culture. Regarding the culture of any country in the world, the status of family and marriage is critical to that culture. I had the privilege of chairing a committee that had a hearing on marriage. It was a remarkable thing. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead was one of the witnesses. She had written an article that was voted one of the most significant articles in a news magazine in the second half of the 20th century. The name of the article was, ``Dan Quayle Was Right.''”