Missouri approves same-sex marriage ban - Aug 4, 2004 (from CNN)

How does this make us more moral? How does same sex marriage threaten my heterosexual marriage? The fact that the Missouri already has a law banning same-sex marriages on their lawbooks shows a lack of faith in the system. "...amendment supporters fear a court could toss aside the state law, and they believe the state would be on firmer legal ground if an outright ban is part of the Constitution."

First, why are they afraid of the courts? The judicial system is supposed to interpret the law, and decide how the law is to be applied. The court also has the power to declare any law unconsititutional. A law stuffed into a state's constitutional amendment can still be unconstitutional by interpretation of the United State's Constitution. The courts can still declare the amendment unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the number of states who have laws that ban same-sex marriages outweighs the number of states who allow same-sex marriage.

It was once considered a crime for people of different color to marry, now we found those laws to be unconstitutional. They have all been repealed. If the laws that ban same-sex marriage aren't repealed on similar grounds, perhaps we should go ahead an declare inter-racial marriage illegal be defining marriage as a union between "one white man" and "one white woman," thus denying anyone else the right to marry.

Here in Oregon the anti-gay lobby (the type of people who don't think homosexuals should have civil rights) have gotten a same-sex banning amendment on the ballot. I'm afraid it will pass because people don't see the harm in starting to remove rights from any group of people.