The Constitution is "Gay"

Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships

New York Times



Gay marriage was recently allowed into several states like Massachusetts, Maine, Washington, Oregon and California since the year 2004. Even though many states legislatives are ready to extend the rights of the same sex marriage, the high courts of New York, New Jersey and Washington ruled that there is “no right to same-sex marriage under their Constitutions.” On May 15 2008, the supreme court of California said that the state law banning same-sex marriage could be counted as illegal discrimination.

The class connection is that gay marriage is considered a “constitutional crisis” because some states like it, and yet some do not. It does not state in the constitution whether gay marriage should be allowed or not, and that is why people are deciding it for themselves.

My personal response is that I believe that the people should be able to decide that for themselves. The constitution is what we based our country upon, and it does not claim anything about marriage. It should be up to us to decide for ourselves instead of making it a "constitutional crisis".