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Gay marriage ban struck down in california
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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 938159" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'"><p style="text-align: left">Marriage is an individual right. This is different than viewing marriage as a right given to acouple. When States argue that marriage is simply defined as an institution between a man and awoman they overlook the fact that the State by its actions is denying </p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"><em><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'">individuals </span></em><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">the right to marrythe person of their choice. Many of the arguments presented by States today on the question ofsame-sex marriage are very similar to those raised in defense of a ban on interracial marriages. In</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'"><p style="text-align: left">Loving v. Virginia </p><p></span></em><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'"><p style="text-align: left"></p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Justice Warren wrote: “Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man … Todeny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as [these] racial classifications is surelyto deprive all the State’s citizens without due process of law.” The State’s refusal to recognize</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">same-sex marriage denies that right to homosexuals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="804brown, post: 938159, member: 29553"] [FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT][LEFT]Marriage is an individual right. This is different than viewing marriage as a right given to acouple. When States argue that marriage is simply defined as an institution between a man and awoman they overlook the fact that the State by its actions is denying [/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][I][FONT=TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT]individuals [/FONT][/I][FONT=TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT][/FONT][FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT]the right to marrythe person of their choice. Many of the arguments presented by States today on the question ofsame-sex marriage are very similar to those raised in defense of a ban on interracial marriages. In[/FONT][/LEFT][FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT][/FONT][I][FONT=TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT][LEFT]Loving v. Virginia [/LEFT][/FONT][/I][FONT=TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT][LEFT][/left][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT]Justice Warren wrote: “Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man … Todeny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as [these] racial classifications is surelyto deprive all the State’s citizens without due process of law.” The State’s refusal to recognize[/FONT][/LEFT][FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT]same-sex marriage denies that right to homosexuals. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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