Gay Marriage Conclusion
"Opinion"06/07/2006
Paul Munnis
Today the Senate buried the GOP’s attempt to launch a Constitutional Marriage Amendment.
It’s interesting to go back to the roots of the issue with Gay Marriage. It is a proposed fix to a problem wherein people engaged in civil unions lack the civil rights that married couples have.
Examples of loss of civil rights include a right to visit a hospitalized partner or to have rights of property inheritance.
The GOP could have fixed this problem and avoided the marriage battle if they had wanted to. They could have extended the needed civil rights to those involved in a legal civil union.
They chose not to do this but instead to create a wedge issue over the alternative: Gay Marriage.
As we listen to the GOP bash gays and lesbians over Gay Marriage, as they wrap themselves in righteousness over the sanctity of marriage, as they deride those states trying to provide a just solution, we need to remember that the GOP has chosen to perpetuate the problem and not to solve it.
That makes the GOP the problem. They have no interest in solving the problem. They are content to leave Gays and Lesbians without their civil rights. That is poor performance by the GOP.