It started as a mental exercise in figuring out if there was some reason why certain people should be proscribed from marrying. If so, why? If not, why the opposition to allowing other than a man and woman to marry?
And that led to a consideration of what marriage really is-not to a cynic like me, but to those who want to be married and who may find satisfaction in such a relationship.
From there the question of whether this is a civil, religious or other kind of relationship, and what is the government's legitimate interest in regulating marriage?
Ah, but the path continues to fork and multiply, and I am hopelessly lost. I have a 12-15 page paper to write for my LGBT class, and I've chosen to write about whether it is a violation of our constitutional equal protection rights to allow some to marry, and not others. And even further down that path, why do we give married couples the privileges they are afforded? Tax benefits, wrongful death actions, property rights and more.
All to be explored, but I don't think I can fit all of this in 12 pages double spaced.
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