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online format. A Constitutional Amendment Is the Only Way to
Protect Marriage by Gerard V. Bradley & William L. Saunders The
legal revolution in favor of same-sex “marriage” has been
uncommonly swift. In the nineteenth century, it took the federal
government four decades to effectively prohibit polygamy in
Utah. By 1856, one national political party (the Republicans)
had a platform plank denouncing polygamy, along with slavery, as
a “relic of barbarism,” but decisive action came only with the
Supreme Court cases in the 1890s. Starting in 1896, it took
civil rights lawyers nearly sixty years to undo the
constitutional doctrine of “separate but equal” facilities for
African-Americans, the doctrine established in Plessy v.
Ferguson in 1896 and not overturned until Brown v. Board of
Education in 1954 (a decision that featured so prominently in
the Senate hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to be
Chief Justice). It took thirteen more years, from 19