Should the legality of gay marriage in the U.S. be decided on the Federal or State Level?
Should individual states be allowed to determine this legal issue for themselves allowing their constituents to be heard; or should there be a federal mandate for the entire country?
I understand there are many opinions about right, wrong, civil liberties, etc., but someone is going to decide it for us whether we like it or not. Who should do it?
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This topic was started by Torziah
on June 6th, 2006. 109 grupies have voted on one or more of the 5 answers.
Tags: marriage
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Marrage, as it is currently defined, is a civil act. To discriminate aginst one group, even to say 'you can do this, but you have to do it differently', is quite simply discrimination.
And discrimination is illegal.
last time i checked there wasn't any law that actually outlawed discrimination... there are laws that outlaw behaviours based on said discrimination, but each person is allowed to discriminate freely against anyone else however that person wishes.
that said, i think this issue should be in the purview of individual states, just like all other marriage license issues are handled at the state level (see: common law marriages for an example, and remember that most states don't have common law marriage)