Jordan Lorence

Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund

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Senior Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund and one of the attorneys supporting Proposition 8 in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case

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In 1996, Congress passed the " Defense of Marriage Act ," which limited marriage to a man and a woman.

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First, Proposition 8 was passed by California voters in 2008 after the State Supreme Court had legalized same-sex marriage.

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