Homosexual Marriages

Homosexual marriages is one of the issues that has been in the supreme court. Homosexual marriages been an issue in America for many. According to Sandra Stencel one case that has been taken to the "Minnesota Supreme court in 1970 on November 18th when Jack Baker and James McConnell were denied a marriage license and when McConnell had a job retraction because of his sexuality".(Stencel 1) This case happened almost forty three years ago which shows how little our government has changed on homosexual marriages when over four decades later we are still having this issue. On March 26th, 2013 the supreme court met to rule on the prospect (prop 8) of homosexual marriages and whether or not same sex marriages violates the Constitution and whether or not it should be banned in America today. I believe that the supreme court should rule to legalize homosexual marriages because it clearly states in the constitution in article three section two it states that "the power of the judicial power of the United States of America says that the power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this constitution". Homosexual marriages in the United States of America are only  legalized  nine states and recognized in four states but is not legalized. Homosexual  marriages  should  be  both  recognized and legalized in all fifty states and given the same rights that we  have  given  to heterosexual marriages. By only giving heterosexual marriages equal rights we are discriminating against homosexual marriages.

  I read a blog today that was written by Andrew Sullivan and published by The Dash Biased and Balanced the blog is about Obama's balance on marriage. He talks about how we should give equal rights to homosexual couples and withholding the right to marry whom we choose is discrimination to homosexual couples by the United States government. He also likes to talk about how Obama only briefly makes in the prop 8th case and about how "segregation with an argument violates core civil equality" and how it is unconstitutional of the United States government is being about the banning of homosexual marriages in most of the states. He also likes to talk about how the country seems to be split fifty-fifty on the issue.Sullivan's main support is the part of his argument that works for him is that it is discrimination against homosexual couples and how it is unconstitutional for the government to distinguish marriages licenses on the basis of gender. The part that doesn't work for Sullivan is that Obama and the Supreme Court and DOMA are making the simple arguments and I don't see how the Voting Rights Act has anything to do with the banning and discrimination of homosexual marriages.I believe that the logic behind the argument to me seems to be mostly sound I think that he needs to put a little more though into why the federal government is involved. I find the his conclusion to be very lacking on support for his argument.