Marriage in America
The
Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
This
article is about people being able to marry someone of the same sex. Some
people couldn’t believe that this guy was involved in challenging a traditional
marriage. He wanted to create a new constitutional right. That people of the
same sex should be able to get married if they want to. Everyone has different
viewpoints on gay marriages. Our constitution is supposed to protect our
fundamental rights. It was said in the Declaration of Independence "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." In 1857 the Supreme Court
said that African Americans couldn’t be citizens. Abraham Lincoln reminded everyone
that "our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal." It has taken our Nation a while to treat
everyone equally. Marriage is one of the most fundamental rights we have as an American
under the constitution. The Supreme Court has said that marriage is a part of
the Constitution's protections of liberty, privacy, freedom of association, and
spiritual identification. In short, the right to marry helps us to define
ourselves and our place in a community. Without it, there can be no true
equality under the law.
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