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Atlanta-based conservative group says gay marriage question NOT settled

The American flag flies next to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 11, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue blockbuster rulings on same-sex marriage and health care with both rulings due by the end of June as the court finishes its nine-month term with its traditional flurry of major opinions. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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The American flag flies next to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 11, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue blockbuster rulings on same-sex marriage and health care with both rulings due by the end of June as the court finishes its nine-month term with its traditional flurry of major opinions. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
By jtharpe54
June 26, 2015

“The decision by this Supreme Court to redefine marriage contrary to global and historical understandings of the word no more settles the national debate on marriage than the Court’s Roe v. Wade decision over 40 years ago settled the national debate on abortion,” Timothy Head, executive director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, an Atlanta-based conservative public policy organization, said in a statement.

“To think otherwise is simply naïve.”

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