Author: Quentin B. Fairchild (Quentin B. Fairchild)

On February 14, Judge Amanda Wright Allen struck down Virginia’s marriage law as unconstitutional.  She began her opinion by quoting from a poetic commemorative address, then followed by incorrectly claiming that the phrase “all men are created equal” is found in the Constitution.  Thirty years ago, this would . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...

“That is what we honor on days of national commemoration—those aspects of the American experience that are enduring. . . . It will be said of us that we kept that faith; that we took a painful blow, and emerged stronger.  ‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in . . . Subscribers...