If YOU were making an argument for same sex marriage before the SCOTUS, what would you say?
I'm serious. Mine would go something like:
The most important job that this court has is to ensure that, as the Constitution repeatedly says, all American citizens are treated equally under the law. The fact that this argument is being heard by the court at all indicates that it sees same sex marriage as a legal, and not a moral or religious issue. All arguments against two people of the same sex having the right to marry come from a supposedly moral or religious standpoint, and attempt to create a concept of "reverse bias", wherein they state that their own freedom is being impinged upon by the granting of the right of marriage to same sex couples. If the court can find a single incidence wherein a person has been denied their Constitutionally guaranteed rights by the union of two men or two women, then let the court present it now or do the right, the just, the responsible thing and find that marriage equality should be not state-by-state, for that is a hardship unimposed on any heterosexual couple, but nationwide, so that we can get on with the business of creating stable and loving families in a country that desperately needs them.
What say y'all? How would you make a good and convincing argument that the Court would listen to?
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