Marriage Law Project

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The Marriage Law Project (MLP) is a public interest legal aid organization that on its web page claims "to reaffirm marriage as the union of one man and one woman." Its offices are located in the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Its founder David Orgon Coolidge, is Senior Fellow at the Columbus School of Law Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Research Fellow in the Columbus School of Law Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion. William C. Duncan, J.D. is Assistant Director of the Marriage Law Project. [1]

The Marriage Law Project is a frequent contributor as a pundit in the cultural homosexuality debates, especially from a Roman Catholic point of view. MLP participated in filing the injunction against San Francisco when that city's clerk decided to issue same sex marriage licenses.Planet Out Groups that oppose marriage for gays and lesbians promised a court fight. The Marriage Law Project and the Alliance Defense Fund announced plans to seek an injunction to block San Francisco from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The Marriage Law Project monitors the progress of state and federal legislation regarding marriage and same-sex unions. It provides information regarding headline news, current legislative progress, various arguments against same sex marriage, case and statute law, news reports, and links to other resources and weblinks.

The Marriage Law Project was founded in 1996.

[edit] Symposia

MLP and the The Marriage and Family Law Project at Brigham Young University Law School co-hosted a symposium September 2006 entitled "“What’s the Harm?”—How Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Society, Families, Adults, Children and Marriage" [2] [3].

Another joint symposium between these schools was held February 1-3, 2001 and was entitled "The ALI Family Dissolution Principles: Blueprint to Strengthen or to Deconstruct Families?" [4]

[edit] Publications

"No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting" by Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and Althea Nagai, PhD. (2001) [http://www.narth.com/docs/lernernagai.html