An issue that is of both national and international concern is the right of homosexuals to marry. The issue of gay marriage is a highly controversial and important issue in the 2004 Presidential Election. One could list a host of religious reasons why gay marriages should be banned, but none would have any relevancy because the constitution establishes a separation of state and church. Therefore, any religious reason to ban gay marriages would not be a …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…people. It would be dreadful if future generations look back and think of us as intolerant and narrow-minded hypercritical oafs that claimed to live in a civilized and democratic society, but in fact were making a people suffer injustice. Consequently, we have to allow homosexuals to marry to maintain the integrity of the constitution, to maintain our humanity, and to allow the dream of all people being equal under the law to develop into reality.