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To: LindyBill who wrote (376934)8/6/2010 5:14:57 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie4 Recommendations   of 794169
 
good article.

There are two right answers to the gay marriage question.

1. Government gets out of the business of marriage and only deals with the legal issues of the partnership. Straight, gay, bi, whatever....they all get civil unions. Churches can then grant marriages...or not, if they don't want to.

2. Since we are all equal in the eyes of the law, and since the government is in the business of marriage between a man and a woman, they must extend the same to any adults who want to get married.

This one issue automatically alienates up to about 10% of our citizens. There are gay men and women who believe in what the US Constitution says. But how could they vote for a politician who doesn't believe that they deserve the same rights and privileges that other adults enjoy?

For those who bring up the 7 million california votes, it is important to remember that we aren't a democracy. The democrats want us to believe that "majority rules" is justification for ignoring the constitution. How absurd is it for conservatives to fall back to that same argument with regard to the Prop 8 vote. Let's use the "separate but equal" school example. If today we decided to vote to segregate schools again so that blacks could go to their schools and whites could go to theirs (and asians and indians etc.....). If 80% of the population voted to uphold separate but equal segregation, would it be ok because the majority approved it? The answer is no, because it is unconstitutional.

Separate but equal doesn't work for non-heterosexual marriage as well.

I said it elsewhere, but I'll support a gay conservative over a straight progressive any day of the week.

We need to focus on what is truly important, not how others decide to keep house.
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