The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday dismantling the federal Defense of Marriage Act may be the thunderous warning of a coming storm in Florida, which twice passed laws making marriage a legal union between a man and a woman.
Mathew Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel who championed the 1997 state law and the 2008 constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples, criticized the decision as “simply illegitimate.”
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