Gay marriage just makes sense

02/27/04 - To the Cigar,In recent days I have walked around the University of Rhode Island campus talking to people I know about gay marriage. Everyone I have talked to has simply said that homosexuals should have the right to marry, it just makes sense.

We live in a country where everyone is supposedly free, where everyone has the same chances and where everyone is equal, right? Well, why then is our government trying to put an amendment in the Constitution that basically says an entire population of people is morally wrong for simply being who they are? Homosexuals are human beings!! Gay people in this country vote and pay taxes like most other citizens of America, so why then are they being denied the basic right to marry the person they love?

Now, I have heard the argument that it is against some religions for homosexuals to marry. My answer to this is that as far as I can remember there is supposed to be a separation of church and state. Therefore, this amendment President Bush wants to put in which defines marriage is unconstitutional in itself. Marriage has no place in the Constitution if it is taken as a religious entity. The government has no right to define marriage. It does, however, have the obligation to uphold the Constitution which, if I remember correctly, says that all men are created equal.

Sincerely,
Katie Block
Students for Social Change