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Discuss “Gay marriage laws violate civil rights”

On Tuesday, in the shadow of the Presidential election, 11 states passed bans on gay marriage. Following in the footsteps of Missouri and Louisiana, these states violated basic civil rights and cast discrimination into law.

This new wave of state-sanctioned homophobia has a strong connection to our country?s history of institutionalized racism. Many of the arguments thrown around condemning same-sex marriage had their initial run with the movement to ban interracial marriage. How can we as a country condemn racism, and then turn around and use the same historical arguments against race to take away the rights of gay citizens?

Same-sex couples have the fundamental right to get married and to enjoy all of the same rights afforded to heterosexual...

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