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Ross sent the following e-mail to the Currier House community about half an hour ago...
...It’s a blend of opportunities that might come up—like Ms. Fleming, which we didn’t even know about until about two weeks ago,” Lee said...
...guarantee of a “freedom to marry” is completely irrelevant to the question of gay marriage because, quite simply, gay marriage is not actually marriage. As a New York Appellate Court put it in Hernandez v. Robles (2006), “until a few decades ago, it was an accepted truth for almost everyone who ever lived…that there could be marriages only between participants of different sex,” whereas interracial marriage has always been between a man and a woman...
...different natures.” The Warren Court, however, rendered all of these concerns baseless, since marriage cannot be defined by the superficial characteristics of those involved. Legitimizing the concerns of those who are against gay marriage will also therefore legitimize the concerns of the segregationists four decades ago...
...must therefore conclude that Prop 8 is an unconstitutional as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. If they fail, they will be tossing into the dustbin the reasoning that the Supreme Court used in Loving to strike down laws that banned interracial marriage, thereby implicitly overriding it. Two years ago, we elected a president raised by parents whose marriage was only considered fully valid after a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. Perhaps one day, after the Court makes the right decision regarding laws like Prop 8, we will elect another...