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I see it as progress. It is definitely a civil rights issue and, hey, what's wrong with being in a committed relationship, legally.
I can certainly understand why religious folks would be against it which is why I would never advocate forcing a religious entity to perform a marriage ceremony. But I do not believe that same-sex couples should be denied a civil/state marriage. Working on a religious marriage is something they need to deal with on a personal level.
It does not matter what I think. But the federal gvt has no constitutional role to define marriage,legalize gay marriage, or abolish. This is a state issue and I support the states that have accepted gay marriage and those that have not. Of course gays have the right to due process { the proper phrase eludes me} to present a case to the SC. That is where the whole issue is heading and will be and decided.
I agree the Constitution doesn't talk about marriage. The problem is that much of marriage law has been federalized (such as Social Security benefits, tax law, etc). I'm totally against this, but to have true marriage equality, it has to happen at the federal level.
According to thousands of generations of people, east and west, north and south, across all the continent,s who have always considered and defined marriage, by whatever term or conditions they apply to the institution, as being between two people of different sexes, i.e. 1 ea man and and 1 ea woman. In a very few cases, it has been 1ea man and multiple ea women.
That's who.
The "that's the way we've always done it" argument isn't very convincing for me. For centuries, married women used to be considered property of their husbands, too. Just because something is a tradition, doesn't mean it's good.
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