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- Title: What Next for Gay Marriage?(The Good Book)
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 240 KB
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VOTERS HERE in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a lesbian coworker by predicting a universal right to marry within a decade. "That's fine," she replied blankly, "but that doesn't help us now." For me, the gay marriage issue was and will always be no more than a legal and moral abstraction. For my coworker and her long-time partner, the marriage ban was a personal tragedy and a cold, hard slap in the face from their most trusted friends and neighbors. My prediction may have been insensitively timed, but it was firmly based on clear trends toward public and legal acceptance of homosexuals in the United States. In 2003, for example, the Supreme Court overturned Bowers v. Hardwick--precedent from seventeen years past--to strike down a state law criminalizing gay sex. "[A]dults may choose to enter upon this relationship in the confines ... of their own private lives and still retain their dignity," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority in Lawrence v. Texas, and "[p]ersons in a homosexual relationship may seek autonomy for these purposes, just as heterosexuals do."