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How do gays feel about the Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage?
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∙ 14y ago
Answering for myself (I'm gay and -- thanks to the State of Iowa -- married to my husband):
1. Just to be absolutely clear: this is about civil marriage, not the religious sacrament. Civil marriage is a partnership contract and -- like any other contract -- should be available to any two consenting adults who wish to enter into it. (In law, "partnerships" are a type of contract specifically designed for two people.) Some people who promote these amendments deliberately try to confuse civil and religious marriages.
2. Since the issue first came up in Hawaii, it has been a matter of record that the government had the right to discriminate between same-sex and opposite-sex couples -- if and only if they could offer an acceptable justification. In almost 20 years, no one has been able to offer that justification. It seems pretty obvious that there is no legal justification to ban same-sex marriage. This is why these amendments have been offered.
3. These amendments would make gay and lesbian people who wanted to marry into second-class citizens -- people who do not have the same rights as other Americans. This is unconstitutional and an offense to me as an American and a gay man.
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