Schuette’s same-sex marriage brief: Let affirmative action ruling guide this case

By: American Decency Staff

Attorney General Bill Schuette hopes the appeals court uses the same reasoning when deciding Michigan’s same-sex marriage case as the U.S. Supreme Court used when upholding Michigan’s voter-approved ban on affirmative action policies used by the state’s universities.

In a brief filed in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday evening, Schuette repeatedly brought up the Supreme Court’s ruling that Michigan voters had the right to ban universities from using affirmative action in admissions decisions. The same should hold true for the same-sex marriage case because Michigan residents voted in 2004 to define marriage as between one man and one woman.

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