Pro Gay Marriage

             Certainly, gay & lesbian couples should be allowed to live together and do whatever they want but last time I checked, there weren't any laws preventing them from doing so. I could be wrong, of course; and if anybody has any of those anti-sodomy laws still on the books though, then of course they should be struck down.
             Furthermore, gay & lesbian couples should certainly have the legal right to name each other as beneficiaries, convey power-of-attorney, etc., just like a married man and woman. You can't just come along and change the definition because you think it's discriminatory.
             A casual observer could be forgiven for concluding that the heated debate over gay marriage boils down to a semantic dispute. Many people seem willing to extend to gay couples rights and privileges similar to those enjoyed by husbands and wives, as long as the relationship is not called a marriage.
             The highest court in Massachusetts ruled that gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry under the state constitution, emphatically stating that the Commonwealth had failed to identify any constitutional reasons why they could not wed.
             President Bush's endorsement of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage could prove to be a great moment for gay rights.
             Busy, Kerry, and John Edwards all say states should be allowed to have civil unions. All three say they oppose gay marriage. The main difference is that the Democrats want to ban gay marriage by statute and Bush wants to ban it by constitutional amendment.
             And what about that new, more defensible position? So far, 49 of 50 states seem to have taken the view that the defense-of-marriage statute signed by President Bill Clinton is sufficient to ban gay marriage. If the constitutional amendment is ratified, conservatives could ensure that it's 50 of 50 states.
             Prominent gay rights groups are ready to issue an election-year pass to Democratic presidential front-runner John K
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