The NAACP began its quest for civil rights in the same way that the gay community is going about seeking equality: through the legal system.
If patience is a virtue in the world of the law, than understanding of the law can be lethal.
As a community, gays in the US should be celebrating, because each ban that is passed as a state constitutional amendmendment is grounds for a case to be appealed to the US Supreme Court for judicial review. Let the highest court in the land decide if these bans are violating our civil rights.
The University of Virginia Law School warns that these bans will be struck down because they not only violate the rights of same-sex couples, but the affect all unmarried couples in the Commonwealth.
This is what was considered in Pennsylvania when a Marriage Protection Amendment was defeated in the legislature there this summer. The amendment was rejected because its language threatened the rights of all unmarried coupled to collect health benefits, secure adoptions, to claim property left by a love one in a will and even to make emergency medical decisions.
Costitutional bans on same-sex marriage may come as threat, but we need to keep in mind that these bans allow room for further legislation and will soon require the Constitutionality of defining marriage as a union between one-man and one-woman.
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