Separation of Marriage and State

Here is my new column, Separation of Marriage and State. In the column, I  assert that homosexuals have as much a right to marry as do heterosexuals. And yes, it is a right to marry. A lot of people don’t like to hear something like that. Well, I would ask someone who is married to a member of the opposite sex, do you and your spouse have a right to be married? Or, if you’re engaged, then, do you and your fiance have a right to get married? Of course you do. The Declaration of Independence states that we have natural rights, among them the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. If a couple’s pursuit of happiness is to be married, who are their neighbors or the state to say that because they might be of the same gender that they may not get married? And a right to liberty means that they have a right to live their lives, as long as they don’t violate someone else’s right to life and liberty, and they have a right to be free from any intrusion by the state or by their neighbors.

Now, in 2006 during the last year he was governor, Willard Mitt Romney spent a lot of time  traveling around the country to show how anti-same-sex marriage he was. I really don’t believe his sincerity, given his positions during earlier campaigns for public office. He’s probably been all over the map on most issues. Perhaps he could see ahead to his presidential campaign, and foresaw the maligning he might get regarding his Mormonism and that past Mormons had been polygamists, because he really stressed that “one man-one woman” definition of marriage philosophy of his. But will he really want to jail people who disobey laws against same-sex marriage and get married anyway?