Wed Apr 12, 2023 – 5:41 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The redefinition of marriage to encompass same-sex unions is not a settled issue despite widespread belief to the contrary, according to the president of one of America’s oldest conservative policy institutions.
Dr. Kevin Roberts, who took over as president of the Heritage Foundation last year, sat down with the New York Post’s Daniel McCarthy for an interview published April 3 about his vision for the prestigious think tank, which has long been associated with mainstream conservative orthodoxy but under Roberts’s tenure has taken on more of an independent streak, both echoing and critiquing some of the ideas of the so-called populist or “New Right” movements on economic and foreign policy issues.
“We would like to see a court case go up to the Supreme Court and completely tear out, root and branch, Obergefell [v. Hodges],” the 2015 ruling that forced all 50 states to recognize same-sex “marriage,” Roberts said. “Which means that — well, it could mean that marriage goes back to the states, but Heritage’s position, to be really plain, is that marriage is between one man and one woman, full stop.”
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