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vicarz(plagarized from a guy you don't know)
Why does gay marriage matter? Here are 1049 reasons:
In 1997 they asked the CBO that same question, framed along the lines of "What are the legal benefits of marriage?" They found 1049: http://www.marriageequality.org/1049.pdf
The only things that seem to discourage people from amending the Constitution to prevent the right of gay marriage to be granted are:
Article V of the Constitution,
the history of Constitutional Amendments in the U.S.,
the various mechanisms for such Amendments (by Congress versus by the States),
some of the more relevant controversies (i.e. the historical efforts to bar any effort to "interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof"),
what it takes to amend the Constitution,
and maybe whether the current effort by Bush to restrict the definition of marriage (a domestic institution if ever there was one) would violate the law, would violate the political question doctrine, or would survive Judicial review, etc.
See the annotations beginning at:
http://conlaw.usatoday.findlaw.com/constitution/article05/01.html
Why does gay marriage matter? Here are 1049 reasons:
In 1997 they asked the CBO that same question, framed along the lines of "What are the legal benefits of marriage?" They found 1049: http://www.marriageequality.org/1049.pdf
The only things that seem to discourage people from amending the Constitution to prevent the right of gay marriage to be granted are:
Article V of the Constitution,
the history of Constitutional Amendments in the U.S.,
the various mechanisms for such Amendments (by Congress versus by the States),
some of the more relevant controversies (i.e. the historical efforts to bar any effort to "interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof"),
what it takes to amend the Constitution,
and maybe whether the current effort by Bush to restrict the definition of marriage (a domestic institution if ever there was one) would violate the law, would violate the political question doctrine, or would survive Judicial review, etc.
See the annotations beginning at:
http://conlaw.usatoday.findlaw.com/constitution/article05/01.html
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Date: 2004-02-25 12:12 pm (UTC)amendment that discriminates against american
citizens with the equal protection clause of the 14th
amendment. can we have the constitution contradicting
itself? wouldn't they have to repeal at least that part
of the 14th to make this abomination fit?
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Date: 2004-02-25 12:16 pm (UTC)"Four legs good, two legs better!"
or
"We are at war with Eurasia. We have alway been at war with Eurasia."
response?
Hey, this ignores the whole seperate but equal issue. That's the next runner-up. It worked so well for those minority fellows...what ever happend to them, anyway? Oh well, I'm sure it all worked out.
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Date: 2004-02-25 01:07 pm (UTC)damned gays
Date: 2004-02-25 12:41 pm (UTC)Personally, I think that all marriage is stupid. I've lived with the same boy for 3 years and we're not married. It makes it a little uncomfortable when people ask what our relationship is, but I'm only uncomfortable because I was taught to be.
Re: damned gays
Date: 2004-02-25 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-25 01:33 pm (UTC)