Gay Marriage - Canada has

Gay Marriage - Canada has become the first country in North America to legalize gay marriage.

It's no surprise that it's Andrew Sullivan's topic du jour.

This is one of those issues, like the death penalty and commuter rail, where I break with some of my fellow conservatives. I think that we need to:

1. separate the religious and legal aspects of marriage,
2. allow gays to enter into the same sort of contractual obligations that straight couples assume when they get married
3. let churches and other religious groups decide what "marriage" is in their respective faiths, separate from the legal issues, and
4. leave people alone.

I see no legal reason to bar gays from the legal contract of marriage (and the emotional meatgrinder, for that matter). As to the moral issues - that's between me and my church.

Posted by Mitch at June 18, 2003 08:18 AM