Family Research Council, Amicus Curiae
Paul Benjamin Linton, Counsel of Record
The Family Research Council is a conservative organization “dedicated to the promotion of marriage and family and the sanctity of human life in national policy.” Paul Benjamin Linton is a Chicago-based attorney specializing in criminal, abortion regulation, assisted suicide, and marriage law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 31, 2015. In Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, amendments to State constitutions reserved marriage to opposite-sex couples, which, in turn, confirmed the common law understanding of marriage as a relationship that can exist only between a man and…
