Gay Rights Amendment
Outlawing gay marriage (federal) would be directly against the 1st Amendment, right?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free excercise thereof … etc. etc. "So if the fundamentalists want to argue that marriage is defined as a woman + man in the Bible (which is a stretch of interpretation) … while marriage is a religious matter and therefore untouchable by the Federal Act by the 1st Amendment. Agree? And how could the right to validate the marriage of religion and to annul the marriage of another? (This would mean that any hand-fasts are invalid and void, and heterosexual marriages performed in religions who are also gay marriage and refuse to distinguish between them). And before you say "Reynolds v. United States, which was about polygamy (and only lead to the conclusion that you can not break a federal law that already exists and that it is your religious law.)
What is the reason why people are against gay marriage? The majority of they say it is against their religious beliefs. So to pass a law excluding a group of people based on religious beliefs of others would indeed be a violation of the First Amendment. As for the justification of marriage must be between two people who can not procreate, what about all those couples who can not not have children for whatever reason, whether infertility or age? Should we not allow them to marry too?
Florida Gay Marriage Amendment
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