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I already said single parents have families. My point is that gay couples don't have the option of getting married if they wanted to. This implies that gay couples are somehow undeserving of marriage. Why is that?
This is a civil rights issue, as civil rights is about eliminating discrimination based on sex, creed, race, and sexual orientation.
Forbidding marriage on the basis of the couple simply not being heterosexual is a form of discrimination against sexual orientation: a civil rights issue.
I think the federal government should legalize it regardless of what the majority thinks. If everything were decided by the majority vote, women and blacks might not be able to vote today. Civil rights should not be put to a majority vote; that leads to a tyranny of the masses.
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