Gay Marriage

This article asks the question: Are civil unions a civil right?

Let's see: our government issues marriage licenses and empowers certain elected or appointed secular officials to conduct legal marriage ceremonies. These ceremonies confer certain rights (as well as obligations) on the participants. The GLBT community, however, is effectively being denied these rights solely on the basis of religious beliefs. The so-called "defense of marriage" acts, which are becoming all the rage these days, are simply the legal embodiment of those same religious beliefs.

Our government has an obligation to treat all of its citizens equally. Period. If it marries heterosexual couples, then it must marry homosexual couples too.

Are civil unions a civil right? Yes!

Are marriages a civil right? Hell yes!


Today's word of the day:

theocracy
pronunciation: thE-'ä-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Meaning: government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.

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