Civil Unions, a must or a bust?
And then there were three.
Three states, that is, that now allow same-sex marriages. To be clear, these are not civil unions, these are marriages that can be in a Church, in a Temple or any where else that marriages can be formed.
Once I found out that Connecticut joined the ranks of California and Massachusetts in allowing gay marriage, I began to feel that there really is hope in this country for reform to bring us into a more equal society.
Then I saw Steve Chapman’s column that says these laws were initiated the wrong way. By “impatient, unpersuasive judicial decrees.” Which means he believes that the rights of individuals should left to the majority vote.
I am sorry, but I can not stand for that. The rights of humans should not be decided based on a vote. It should be based on laws set down long before our time and by basic human values. No other human rights movement was decided by a vote by the public, why should gay rights be any different?
The Civil Rights Movement in the mid nineties? Resolved by higher-educated individuals that follow set rules in our constitution.(see Brown v Board of Education 1954)
Woman’s right to vote? The nineteenth amendment.
I feel that Chapman is misguided. When it comes to the rights of the individual, the public should not have a say. The choice should fall upon the high courts of the nation and world to decide. By our own Constitution we are promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The majority of the public wants to take that away from the GLBTQ community, it should be the courts power to prevent that.
