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Bush is considering supporting an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt W. Romney said yesterday he was in favor of an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as a heterosexual institution. But no such amendment could be enacted until at least 2006, and today’s decision in the case, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health...
“I don’t think the President’s decision will at all deter the law faculty from fighting this amendment with a serious lawsuit.”
In August of 2002, HLS announced that it would exempt military recruiters from its nondiscrimination requirements because of a Pentagon threat to follow through on the amendment.
Several HLS professors said yesterday that they were disappointed in Summers’ decision and said they would sign onto a faculty lawsuit. Law professors at the University of Pennsylvania and at Yale have launched faculty lawsuits challenging the amendment.