Nick Oliva - What legal rights to a relationship of consenting adults should be available for same-sex couples?

Same-sex marriage should be available for same-sex couples.

 Stand Taken 4/28/2005 12:39 PM

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...don't forget, also, that you need a "marriage license" from your state before you can even have the ceremony in a church. The church part is truly just "form"... not "substance" at all.[continue]
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Actually, non-religious people, such as my wife and me, get married all the time. They don't call them "civil unions" at City Hall, and since church and state are separate, there is no religious invol...[continue]
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Marriage is also a word that defines the coming together of my chocolate and your peanut butter.[continue]
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The court system is a legitimate way of addressing situations where the majority imposes their will on minorities. I don't subscribe to this notion of saying that it's wrong to ask the "umpire" to mak...[continue]
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It's really not much different than other choices people make. You don't see these things when you're part of the entrenched group - you have to be an outsider to recognize the de facto acceptance giv...[continue]
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the courts don't make laws, they interpret them. There are laws against discrimination. If the courts say that same-sex couples are being discriminated against in the context of a law, that's not usin...[continue]
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how can this possibly be reconciled with "government's role in the human experience should be restricted"?[continue]
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