WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 28, on the constitutionality of states defining and recognizing marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Commenting on the oral arguments before the Court, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said, ?Today is a moment of great consequence. Marriage is a perennial institution, with deep roots in who we are and in our nation?s culture and laws. Marriage is and always will be the union between one man and one woman.
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