http://www.wowvownow.com/gay-marriage-discrimination/
Isn’t it legalized discrimination if a State has a law banning gay marriage?
Basically, the State is discriminating against a group of people. Just like during the Civil Rights movement, can’t the Federal Gov’t step in and stop this legalized discrimination which is a violation of the 14th Amendment?
@LEO53 – Just make the law say marriage is between two consenting human adults. Problem solved.
Yeah pretty much. The thing is, it hasn’t gotten up to the SCOTUS yet. In California it was declared unconstitutional (gay marriage ban) but this year there is a prop. (8) to place a constitutional amendment to ban it (in CA constitution.) I’m voting against it. What this is doing is no different than what Jim Crow laws did to Blacks.
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