“For more than 18 months, federal judges across the nation have ignored the Supreme Court’s clear ruling in the Windsor decision, which explicitly reserved to states and their citizens the right, responsibility, and authority to define and defend marriage. I am pleased the Supreme Court is finally taking up the question again, and I encourage the justices to hold firm to the wise, majority rationale in Windsor.

“Like so many other states, the citizens of Kansas made an overwhelming decision by 70% of the vote to stand for traditional marriage when they adopted my Kansas Marriage Amendment. No one justice – no one court – no elite judicial activists should be permitted to redefine or un-define marriage to suit their distaste for traditional marriage.

“Decades of research on families, combined with centuries of human experience, all agree children do best when they have a married mom and dad in the home. By substituting their personal biases for sound legal reasoning, these radical federal judges are harming marriage, families, and most importantly, our children.”

Congressman Huelskamp authored the Kansas Marriage Amendment in 2005. Additionally, following the Windsor decision in 2013, he was the sponsor of the Marriage Protection Amendment (HJ Res. 51) to define marriage as only between one man and one. He plans to reintroduce the Marriage Protection Amendment in the 114th Congress.