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Maybe the Republicans will want Tennessee and other red state voters to go to the polls in November to vote yes on the state to quit issuing marriage licenses. Instead, let the churches worry about doing that.
While I agree with this, I wish we would do this legislatively.
If we are going to have state sponsored marriage, this must be true.
I'd prefer that too, but too many state legislatures are controlled by politicians who support gay marriage bans. That, or they're too afraid of challengers in their party primary elections to take a stand and take these bans out. For them it's easier to hide and let the courts do the work on this.
Why use the legislature when we can have the courts doing the legislating.
Much more efficient, no?
You can't have progress without using progressive ways of doing things
Is it progressive when conservative Republican judges do it? You do realize it's the courts' job to determine the constitutionality of laws passed by the legislature right?
It doesn't make sense for marriage equality to come about legislatively. Marriage is a basic human right. Either officials should simply set aside the bans summarily because they're immoral and unconstitutional, or the courts should order them to. Passing a law allowing same-sex marriage promulgates the fiction that the voters have a right to say whether or not homosexuals can marry. Human rights aren't subject to voter whims.
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