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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins argued on Sunday that
girls would be allowed to marry their biological fathers if the U.S.
Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
On Friday, the Supreme Court said that it would decide by June if LGBT Americans had a constitutional right to marry.
Fox News host Shannon Bream pointed out to Perkins on Sunday that
more than 70 percent of Americans already lived in states where same-sex
marriage was legal.
Conservative attorney Ted Olson, who won a fight to repeal the
federal ban on same-sex marriage, replied that the Supreme Court had a
duty to "decide when the Constitution trumps the will of the people."
"Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have
separation of powers, the reason we have the 14th Amendment is to
provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the
people when the will of the people leads to discrimination against a
segment of our society," Olson noted.
The attorney reminded Perkins and Bream that "the president's mother
and father couldn't have been married in Virginia, they would have been
guilty of a felony" before interracial marriage bans in 16 states were
struck down by the Supreme Court.
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