Aganist gay marriages

Julie Moreau. Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not sit on their haunches. The penultimate turning point came in , when the court forced the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages and allowed them to resume in California. Now, for me as a Christian — for me — for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. On Friday, the U. The early s continued the state-level battles over gay marriage that defined the preceding decade, with at least one notable event. In the Louisiana case, plaintiffs argued that barring same-sex couples from marriage discriminates based on sexual orientation. Lesbian feminists tended to regard the institution as oppressive, given the traditional rules that defined it, such as coverture and immunity from rape.

The highly contentious ballot measure was declared unconstitutional two years later, but multiple appeals kept the matter unsettled until , when the U. Its primary purpose, objectively speaking, is the personal gratification of two individuals whose union is sterile by nature. If there is something immoral about legally acknowledging the love between two consenting adults, it would help the argument to state precisely what that is.