I'd say more, but then I'd be an Enemy Combatant.

[dolari]

A Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage is like a Constitutional Amendment banning blacks from the front of the bus.

Instead of constitutional amendments, or allowing gay marriages, why not do the best of both worlds:

Change ALL official government approved marriage licenses into civil unions. Make marriage a non-governmental "label" applied by priests, ministers, religions (any of them). Athiests can label themselves. :)

Comments

[amw.livejournal.com]

While i agree with you 100% on this, it's unfortunately extremely impractical because of all the other laws that would have to be amended as a result of the introduced ambiguity. I think most people just see gay marriage as the easiest way for federal government to recognize a long-term same-sex coupling, because it's only really a a handful of laws that have to be changed (or in the case of New Mexico, no laws at all). Not that marriage really counts for anything on the federal level any more thanks to Clinton's DOMA. :-(