W. Cole Durham

W. Cole Durham, Jr., is Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU Law School, President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.

April 21, 2015
Politics & Law, Sexuality & Family

April 21, 2015
Constitutional Law, Foreign Affairs, Marriage

Judicially Mandating Same-Sex Marriage Would Put the US at Odds with the Western World

By Lynn D. Wardle, Elizabeth A. Clark and W. Cole Durham

Fewer than 9 percent of the countries belonging to the United Nations have redefined marriage to include same-sex relationships—and only one of those did so via its judiciary. A judicial redefinition of marriage would make the United States an extreme outlier on the global stage.

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