A prominent Christian legal group is urging believers nationwide to pray as the U.S. Supreme Court gets ready to decide the legal definition of marriage.
The high court will take up two separate cases March 26-27 that either will affirm the historical, traditional definition of marriage or redefine it to include same-sex couples. The nine justices will decide the constitutionality of a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act -- a federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman -- as well as California Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that defined marriage in the traditional sense. If the court strikes down both, then gay marriage likely would be legalized nationwide.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which has been heavily involved in defending the traditional definition of marriage, is in the midst of a "nine weeks of prayer for marriage" initiative that includes weekly downloadable printouts naming attorneys and Supreme Court justices for whom to pray. Although the initiative was intended for nine weeks, it easily could be turned into a nine-day prayer initiative leading up to oral arguments. A nine-day prayer initiative launched on Sunday, March 17 would end on Monday, March 25, the day before the first case is heard. Read more
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