Madana Kloss 4th Gay marriage: 3 state bans face formal challenges in federal court

A federal appeals court is set to consider gay marriage bans in Idaho, Nevada, and Hawaii.The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled two hours of arguments Monday on whether such bans should be struck down in Idaho and Nevada.Hawaii legalized gay marriage in December so that appeal may be dismissed.In the past year, more than 20 federal judges have ruled that specific state bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional. The single exception so far occurred Wednesday when US District Judge Martin Feldmen upheld Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriages.In that ruling, the judge criticized the "volley of nationally orchestrated court rulings” by judges who “appear to have assumed the mantle of a legislative body”. Judge Feldman said that other judges were misreading the US Supreme Court’s decision last year in US v. Windsor, a ruling that struck down a portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Gay marriage should be legalized because it is uncivilized and unmerited. Our civil rights and the Constitution give us many liberties. One of our civil liberties is the pursuit of happiness, which homosexual people are not allowed to chase. They cannot be married to the person they love and it violates their freedoms.“In Alaska, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama, not only is gay marriage banned, but so are civil partnerships.” Imagine waking up one day to a world that was completely opposite from the world we went to sleep in, meaning gay people are now straight and all straight people are now gay. Do you think the newly straight people would fight for the newly homosexual people’s rights? America is the land of the free, but we are not free to marry whomever we would like. After everything straight people have put homosexual people through, in this scenario, homosexual people would most likely vote for their rights because they would want their rights to be voted for. We are equals in this world whether we are Black, White, Hispanic, Indian, or any other race for that matter. Why should we not be equals based on sexual orientation?

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