In the Footsteps of the March for Life

In the Footsteps of the March for
Life | John Burger | Catholic World Report

Marriage supporters to rally in Washington, D.C., on March
26 as Supreme Court hears cases

Supporters of both traditional marriage and same-sex unions
will converge on the nation’s capital toward the end of this month as the
Supreme Court takes up two cases that could do to marriage what Roe v. Wade did to unborn human life.

The National Organization for Marriage is holding a March for Marriage on Tuesday morning,
March 26, as the high court hears oral arguments in the first case, a challenge
to California’s Proposition 8, which changed that state’s constitution to
define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Arguments are expected
to be heard the next day in a case contesting the federal Defense of Marriage
Act (DOMA).

“The Court will see diversity and strength of support for
marriage as we march by,” says Brian Brown, executive director of the National
Organization for Marriage. He expects at least 5000 participants, including
Republicans and Democrats, whites, blacks and Hispanics, Catholics and
Protestants. The march will begin from the National Mall near the Smithsonian,
up Constitution Avenue, past the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court and back to
the Mall. There, at about 11 am, marchers will hear from a lineup of speakers
that will include San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the U.S.
bishops’ point man on protecting marriage from attempts at its legal
redefinition.

The show of support is important, Brown believes, because of
the justice who is often considered a “swing vote” on the court: Anthony
Kennedy.

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