Manhattan Declaration Brief By Attorney John Mauck

21 This crisis of religious liberty, documented in the most cursory of fashions above, would multiply should this Court strike down DOMA and thus effectively declare as irrational the views on marriage of the more than half million signatories of the Manhattan Declaration窶馬ot to mention the countless other Christians who share their religious convictions.

CONCLUSION Amicus submits that there is simply no principled justification for this Court to find that DOMA is constitutionally infirm. Whether as a matter of constitutional jurisprudence, natural law, or the reality of lived experience, it is beyond cavil that Congress had, and continues to have, rational and even compelling reasons to preserve male-female marriage, among all the other various and sundry possible alternatives, as the institution most likely to redound to the benefit of American society.

For the foregoing reasons, Amicus respectfully requests that the Court reverse the decision of the court below.