Wednesday, November 19, 2003

marriage, day two

It is ironic that Andrew Sullivan was out of pocket yesterday, travelling in Western Massachusetts to talk about same sex marriage rights.

Today he is back at a computer. See his remarks here.

One excerpt:

You have an inviolable right to marry, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld, even if you are mentally incompetent, have divorced twenty times already, have failed to provide for children from previous marriages, are on death row, or in jail, or a foreigner who is simply passing through the United States en route elsewhere. No government can take it away from you. It's that basic - prior even to the right to vote. Yet millions of citizens, simply because of their involuntary sexual orientation, are still deemed beneath it. If gay people were denied the right to vote, would it be judicial tyranny to strike that law down? So how can it be wrong to strike down a ban on their having an even more fundamental right?

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