RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A group, which worked for years to change the North Carolina Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, says the U.S. Supreme Court should have taken up a case that could have reversed federal law protecting it.

“We think this is a missed opportunity for the court to revisit the question of same-sex marriage,” Ashley Vaughn with the NC Values Coalition said.

The North Carolina-based group has been at the forefront of a movement to define marriage nationwide as between a man and a woman. They filed a brief a decade ago in the landmark Obergefell case. In North Carolina, they led the fight to enshrine the definition in North Carolina’s Constitution, something they won in 2012 when the Marriage Amendment passed.

“There are a lot of North Carolinian

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