Yes, I support gay marriage. Even though if I do not support it, every men, as well as women, has the right to be married to each other. There is the Constitution that provides the source for the rights of men and women:
Amendment 14, Section 1 states that All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
That clearly states it. Gay marriage shouldn't be even controlled by the state. In the same matter, gay marriage doesn't even break the laws of the Constitution. Basically, ANY state do not have the right to choose whom it will grant rights, privileges and freedoms. This is discrimination, and that would involve another amendment section:
Amendment 19 states that The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
That clearly states it. Gay marriage shouldn't be even controlled by the state. In the same matter, gay marriage doesn't even break the laws of the Constitution. Basically, ANY state do not have the right to choose whom it will grant rights, privileges and freedoms. This is discrimination, and that would involve another amendment section:
Amendment 19 states that The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
However, along with the other laws and amendments, I believe there is a sentence that states that a state has some other rights and privileges that are not specifically listed but preserved to the state. I am not sure, though, that this would prevent our support and petition not to ban gay marriage.
Some may say, "Gays have the right to marry just as everyone else—a right to marry someone of the opposite gender." Similar arguments were made in the days of miscegenation in the 1950’s and 1960’s: "Blacks have the right to marry just as whites do—the right to marry someone of their own race." Such a stance is clearly a form of hypocrisy and oppression, and has no place in the America our forebears envisioned, and contradicts the very basis of the repeal of the miscegenation laws. Albeit slowly, Americans have striven over the years since Brown vs. the Board of Education to uphold that ruling socially; separate but equal is not equal. In our societal efforts to make this ruling a social and legal reality, we have made tremendous strides to end all forms of discrimination, finally recognizing our fellow man and woman’s rights as unalienable regardless of creed, religion, race, gender, and even sexual orientation.
Regardless how one attempts to argue in favor of banning same-sex marriage, our Constitution is clear that doing so is illegal, even to the point of disallowing our own Congress to revise the Constitution so that it might contradict itself. The time has come. Same-sex couples have existed throughout history. From the Alexandrian Empire to Greece to Rome to America today, gay couples continue to forge out the best lives they can. I know my partner and I do. And one day, we hope soon, we will be allowed to marry, so that we may enjoy the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities far too many couples already take for granted. After this fight for that which we should already have, we could never, ever take our marriage for granted. Let us celebrate, for this is the land of the free… and soon we will all be free to marry whomever with we fall in love.
In the other hand, we could enforce gay rights through petitioning [in Amendment 1-] but still may require the vote of the people.
In conclusion, I say, in my opinion that it is my right, whether with or without religious beliefs, to be what I am--maybe because I choose to or I am destined to. And by the way, Christians, like me, don't have the source to all God's plans or planned plans
And one more--I just support gay marriage; I am not saying I'm gay, but if you want to call me gay, that'd be fine; I'd rather be a Boo Radley!
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