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Faith key for judge who overturned Virginia's same-sex marriage ban

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NORFOLK, Va. -- U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen wears her Christian faith proudly, at least to the extent that federal judges can. At her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee three years ago, Wright Allen began by thanking God for her very existence. She spoke confidently about how her late father and an attorney friend were "in heaven" watching the proceeding. And she recognized her pastor, from a religiously conservative church in Norfolk, who had driven to Washington for the hearing, pointing him out to the senators. Aside from her husband, she told them, the pastor "is probably the closest man in my life." Last Thursday, Wright Allen, 53, weighed in on...

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