Middle Ground on Gay Marriage

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In seemingly unending arguments for or against gay marriage in America, we hear continual reverberations of identical redundant and outdated arguments emanating from mouths of our politicians merely towing their party lines; creative thinking doesn’t seem to be involved. A student of United States Constitutional Law, I strongly believe their rhetoric is not what America’s founding fathers’ envisaged.

Instead of old redundant Democratic or Republican justifications for or against legalizing gay marriage in America, I’d like to hear some brave political soul running for public office say something like this for once; it is legally correct.

1) Although I personally don’t believe in gay marriage owing to my personal and/or religious convictions, I am a publically elected official. And as such, I owe it to my constituents to protect their legal political and civic entitlements/rights all American citizens share. This includes both their civil/political and social/economic rights as stated in the full faith and credit clause of US law.

• Added on: Feb 21st, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Jill Starr
• Listed in: Lifestyle Law & Legal
• Tags: human rights civil rights gay marriage law & legal jill starr on gay marriage homosexual law