Marriage Rights

Summary


In Wednesday's editorial "A 'marriage' proposal," you boil democracy down to majority rule. You never learned that the judicial branch has a role in protecting the rights of minorities when the public at large treads on them.

Slavery's demise and blacks' civil rights never would have come about by sending those issues to the "people" for a vote. And it is not just people (as states or by themselves) or God who determine a right. As the Founding Fathers understood, it is reason that defines a right. Barring fallacies such as tradition, "majority" culture, religious bigotry and, worse, plain old confusion, there is no reason why homosexuals should not have the right to marry.

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Marriage Rights

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