Primarily, I believe marriage is a right and no state should be able to deny it based on a misled idea of Christianity (Jesus never actually spoke about same-sex relations, but that is an essay for another time). Additionally, it seems to me like most people who believe the state governments should decide only say this because they live in a state that would continue to ban same-sex marriage. Where were these avid supporters of a State’s right to choose when the Defense of Marriage Act was instituted in 1996? If the national government were to overturn the Supreme Court ruling and ban same-sex marriage across the country, most of the same people who are arguing for a state’s right to choose would change their mind in an instant. I feel that the people who think the states should have authority over same-sex marriage and the people who disapprove of same-sex marriage are a lot of the same
Primarily, I believe marriage is a right and no state should be able to deny it based on a misled idea of Christianity (Jesus never actually spoke about same-sex relations, but that is an essay for another time). Additionally, it seems to me like most people who believe the state governments should decide only say this because they live in a state that would continue to ban same-sex marriage. Where were these avid supporters of a State’s right to choose when the Defense of Marriage Act was instituted in 1996? If the national government were to overturn the Supreme Court ruling and ban same-sex marriage across the country, most of the same people who are arguing for a state’s right to choose would change their mind in an instant. I feel that the people who think the states should have authority over same-sex marriage and the people who disapprove of same-sex marriage are a lot of the same