"I Do" or "Please Don't": Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages
With the recent decision by the Hawaii courts regarding the legalization
of marriage between same-sex couples, a political debate across the United
States has begun. Many people believe that this is a monstrous step to
legalizing same-sex unions country wide, especially since legal tradition
recognizes marriages performed in other states as binding within every other
state, but also because Hawaii is known for it's liberal, ground-breaking first
steps that the other states often follow the model of. If the states have any
will, however, they will not fold to the pressure put on them by this state and
the gay rights groups, they will continue to not recognize a man and man or a
woman and woman as a man and wife.
What is marriage anyway? Isn't it the union of two people who love each
other to prove their commitments to one another for the future? Yes, but there
is more. Webster's Dictionary defines marriage as:
"a) the......
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