The following quote may be attributed toregarding Thursday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit into uphold the freedom of several states to affirm marriage as the union of one man and one woman in their laws:“The people of every state should remain free to affirm marriage as the union of a man and a woman in their laws. As the 6th Circuit rightly concluded, the Constitution does not demand that one irreversible view of marriage be judicially imposed on everyone. The 6th Circuit’s decision is consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s acknowledgement inthat marriage law is the business of the states.”ADF filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of state legislators or pro-family groups in three of the cases that the 6th Circuit consolidated on appeal:, and. ADF also filed amicus briefs at the district court level in