David R. Upham, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law (Miami) and Senior Fellow in Politics and Law at the University of Dallas. His research and writing focuses on American constitutional history, and in particular, the history of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Indeed, because our Constitution recognizes the right of both mother and father to the custody of their joint offspring, that Constitution surely permits - if not requires - all the states of our Union to publicly favor, once again, the lifelong "union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."
Date posted: 2026-08-22