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Straight people do not have the right to marry same sex, or animals, or sibligs, or multiple spouses etc. Same laws apply to everyone.
However, your rights and same sex marriage has nothing to do with the topic.
That is discrimination based on gender.
Also that argument was used before.
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They insisted that because miscegenation laws punished both the black and white partners to an interracial marriage, they affected blacks and whites "equally." This argument, which is usually called the equal application claim, was hammered out in state supreme courts in the late 1870s, endorsed by the United States Supreme Court in 1882, and would be repeated by judges for the next 85 years.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
If a state has marriage, and benefits, and protections that go with marriage, then they can not deny American citizens equal protection of the law without showing a compelling state interest in doing so.
Soon, perhaps - not yet. There are still states that refuse to give full faith and credit to marriages sanctioned by other states, and the federal government still refuses to give full faith and credit to marriages so sanctioned. Once those two injustices are remedied, you statement here will have more credibility.
Still, people really shouldn't be required to move to marry the person they love. And it shouldn't be necessary. There should be means by which they can secure a marriage license in another state, get married there, and then have that marriage recognized by the rest of the states and the federal government. Then, more or less, "problem solved".
Michelle Obama loses her cool: First Lady threatens to leave fundraiser after lesbian protester heckles her - and the WH
Michelle Obama loses her cool: First Lady threatens to leave fundraiser after lesbian protester heckles her - and the White House deletes exchange from official transcript
When will you start to give a damn about all of the other people in this country who aren't treated equally under the laws as an American citizen?
You think I don't?
Maybe you think that I can only think about one topic at a time? Sorry, but I'm a great multi-tasker.
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Michelle Obama loses her cool: First Lady threatens to leave fundraiser after lesbian protester heckles her - and the WH
