I agree with Lauren's comments from her blog, Walk it Out, regarding the editorial, "Gay Couples Have the Right to be as Miserable As Everyone Else". Like Lauren, I don't agree with the concept that government should step in and tell individuals who they can and cannot marry.
If two people are in love, or for that matter, are using the system of marriage to gain citizenship, it is their prerogative. A homosexual man or lesbian woman should be granted to have the same rights marriage as a straight man or straight woman. When the Constitution was written, gay individuals were not segregated to not be granted certain rights as straight individuals.
However, we do have to ask the question-where do we draw the line?
Let's be honest- Americans can take things to the extreme. Just spend a Saturday afternoon people watching in central Austin on the "Drag," you will see just about everything.
The government must consider how far people might take the marriage rights they are given. Should the government allow citizens the right to let them marry their pet goat or even an inanimate object? I am getting married next year and I feel marriage is very sacred and special and should be treated as such. If the laws are changed, to be too vague, and a man decides to marry a tree, I feel that marriage loses value and importance.
Instead of the argument "the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry," change the law to all humans, straight and/or gay, over the age of 18 can marry. However, what then do you do about those who would like to have more than two spouses at one time? The ongoing problem with this, and many federal and state laws, lies within the verbiage used. Maybe that's why marriage is a s segregated as it is.
To see Laurens full editorial, click the following link:
http://lecgov.blogspot.com/2008/04/gay-couples-have-right-to-be-as.html
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