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...Civil marriage is a gateway to over 1,400 benefits, rights, and protections," Isaacson said. Most of those rights, she added, require a marriage license and cannot be "contracted or collectively bargained...
McCarthy, director of the Carr Center’s Human Rights and Social Movements Program and a lecturer at HKS and the College, drew parallels between the movement to legalize same-sex marriage and the civil rights movement...
...event’s main organizer, Carrie E. Sheffield, a Mormon student at HKS, said that the panel aimed to encourage civil dialogue around the highly politicized issue...
...Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, a conservative public policy organization, argued against the idea that gay marriage is a civil right. He said that civil rights must come from the democratic legislative process and not from court decisions. A civil right cannot be taken away if it did not exist in the first place, he added...
Sorensen, assistant director of public affairs at the LDS Multi-Stake Public Affairs Council, also expressed support for the separation between civil union and marriage, stating that his church defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman...