The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) is among the roughly dozen religious
denominations calling on the Supreme Court to uphold state bans on
gay marriage.
The nation's highest court will hear
arguments in a case challenging bans in four states later this month,
with a ruling expected in June.
“Representative democracy matters to
religious organizations and people of faith,” the churches wrote in
an
amicus
brief filed in the case. “Their capacity to build communities
where their values are respected and their ways of life protected
depends on the pluralism that our democratic institutions foster and
secure.”
“To declare an unprecedented
constitutional right to same-sex marriage would deny people of faith
who support traditional marriage the liberty to participate as equal
citizens in deciding which values and policies will govern their
communities. We urge the Court to trust the people and their
democratic institutions to resolve the marriage issue, as it has on
other divisive issues so many times.”
Other churches that signed on to the
brief include Assemblies of God, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church
and the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.
(Brief provided by Equality
Case Files.)