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by AB-Joel on March 14th, 2004

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Does the US Constitution define marriage?

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  • by Muad dib on October 21st, 2004

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    The US Constitution doesn't need to concern itself with personal matters such as marriage; that is an authority best relegated to the states. The Constitution has always served to guarantee freedoms to Americans, never to deny them, witness the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol--- Prohibition--- which was repealed. The Constitution, in particularly the Bill of Rights, provides Americans with freedom of religion, and forbids the establishment of a state religion, and banning same-sex marriages based upon Biblical principles is crossing that line. Affording same-sex couples the basic rights reserved to heterosexual couples will not bring the Wrath of God upon the U.S., neither did ending slavery, desegregation, or granting equal rights to women.

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