Marriage

Marriage is a practice common to all cultures in all ages. It is, therefore, a natural institution, something common to all mankind. At its most basic level, marriage is a union between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation and mutual support, or love. Each spouse in a marriage gives up some rights over his or her life in exchange for rights over the life of the other spouse.  The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is:

  1. Free: it is entered into freely by both individuals.
  2. Fruitful: it is a union of opposite sexes open to the birth of children.
  3. Faithful: excludes a union with any other person so long as the marriage exists.
  4. Forever: a lifelong union, ending only with the death of one spouse.

Candidate Positions

  • As California’s attorney general, Harris submitted a brief in the ongoing litigation over Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage enacted by voters via a 2008 referendum. Among other things, Harris’s brief confirmed what she had said as a candidate and as attorney general-elect: Her office would not defend Proposition 8, by then a matter of state law written into the California Constitution, in court.
  • Harris was among the first elected officials to officiate a same-sex “wedding” in 2013.
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