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In seemingly unending arguments for or against gay marriage in America, we hear continual reverberations of identical redundant and outdated arguments emanating from mouths of our politicians merely towing their party lines; creative thinking doesn't seem to be involved. A student of United States Constitutional Law, I strongly believe their rhetoric is not what America's founding fathers' envisaged.
Instead of old redundant Democratic or Republican justifications for or against legalizing gay marriage in America, I'd like to hear some brave political soul running for public office say something like this for once; it is legally correct.
1) Although I personally don't believe in gay marriage owing to my personal and/or religious convictions, I am a publically elected official. And as such, I owe it to my constituents to protect their legal political and civic entitlements/rights all American citizens share. This includes both their civil/political and social/economic rights as stated in the full faith and credit clause of US law.
2) Homosexuals are entitled to gay marriage although I personally disagree with the idea because denying them their right thereto is not comparable to denying any one sector of American society say the right to work based on their personal private sexual preferences. If heterosexuals are entitled to unemployment, so are gays. To deny any particular political/civic right to any American citizen based on sexual preference, religion, race and/or creed is unconstitutional; plain and simple.
When Republicans gain the moral courage and political willpower to objectively produce such a speech, they'll be many times more powerful a political party in America capable of gaining support from the homosexual citizen base in America.
J Starr
