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(citizens of CA voted to approve constitutional amendment (Proposition 8) defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman; CA governor and attorney general refused to defend the law and citizen group that sponsored Proposition 8 sought enforcement; U.S. Supreme Court determined that citizen group lacked standing to defend such constitutional amendment under Article I, Sec. 2 because of lack of direct stake in outcome of appeal and only interest was to vindicate constitutional validity of generally applicable state law; U.S. Supreme Court did not create right to redefine marriage as anything other than that established by Natural Moral Law from the beginning of time).