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...Vermont Gay Marriage Gains Momentum While Californians await a decision from the state supreme court on whether a referendum banning gay marriage will be upheld, other parts of the country appear to be moving in favor of same-sex unions. Vermont and Iowa legalized the practice in early April; the District of Columbia will vote in May on whether to recognize other states' unions...
...sense that something big is happening has been felt by the other side of the battle too. "The momentum seems to be now on the side of those pushing for the legalization of same-sex marriage," the Rev. Albert Mohler told TIME on Wednesday. "The Vermont and Iowa developments seem to signal the fact that, as many of us have sensed for some time, the legalization of same-sex marriage is taking on a sense of inevitability." Mohler is president of the nation's flagship Southern Baptist seminary in Louisville, Ky., and one of America's most respected Evangelical thinkers...
...that something you've campaigned against? Yes. Eagle Forum has certainly taken positions against same-sex marriage and is working on that in the states where it's a lively issue...
...courts because the Equal Rights Amendment did not define the operative words, which were sex and equality. So what does sex mean? Is it the sex you are, or the sex you do? What does equality mean? Does it mean equality of individual people like the Fourteenth Amendment, or does it mean the equality of a group? In America we really don't believe in group rights. I think it's pretty clear that if the Equal Rights Amendment had passed, we would have had same-sex marriage 25 years...
...Whether expressly or impliedly, much of society rejects same-sex marriage due to sincere, deeply ingrained - even fundamental - religious belief," the court said, before adding that religious views are nonetheless mixed on the subject. "As a result, civil marriage must be judged under our constitutional standards of equal protection and not under religious doctrines or the religious views of individuals. This approach does not disrespect or denigrate the religious views of many Iowans who may strongly believe in marriage as a dual-gender union, but considers, as we must, only the constitutional rights of all people, as expressed...