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...commented in The Wall Street Journal, to emphasize that this is “not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.” Indeed, as Olson echoed in Newsweek, “legalizing same-sex marriage?? would “represent the culmination of our nation’s commitment to equal rights...
...crucial flaw in this argument, and the reason why Prop 8 is such a threat to Loving, is that the Virginia courts didn’t believe that interracial marriage was “marriage?? either. Marriage is a divine institution, wrote the Virginian judge that originally gave the Lovings their sentence, and God “placed [separate races] on separate continents,” in order to demonstrate that He did “not intend for [them] to mix.” In Naim v. Naim (1955), the Virginia Supreme Court similarly argued...
Because they’re both from states with constitutional bans against gay marriage??Stallings hails from Texas and Nauert from Missouri—Massachusetts is one of the five states in which they can legally tie the knot. According to Sexton Richard D. Campbell, about 30 same-sex ceremonies have been performed in Memorial Church since gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts...
Today it is much too easy to conflate the awarding of rights to gay Americans with a government takeover of religious institutions. One fundamental problem is that our laws employ the religious term “marriage?? to define what should be solely a legal concept. From Uncle Sam’s perspective, a union of individuals—gay or straight—should be treated as strictly part of the legal apparatus, and not related to a religious ceremony. If we can divorce religious terminology from our legal system, we can afford gay Americans equal rights?...
...government-granted union between two individuals should be recognized as only a civil union, not a marriage, under the law. To use the term “marriage?? equates a legal union with a religious one. This skews the debate over same-sex marriage for those who may not be opposed to gay unions but believe in a strict biblical definition of the word marriage. To remedy this, gay and straight couples could be treated as equals under the law in that both could receive a civil union, which has no religious implications...