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Article: Letters to the Editor.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 18, 2008
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Is marriage a constitutional right?
Regarding the Nov. 14 Opinion piece, "California's same-sex marriage case affects all of us": Author Kermit Roosevelt's argument is specious in that marriage should not be confused with our rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
There have always been many state restrictions to lawful marriage, such as age or family relationship, and Mr. Roosevelt has confused rights with what is merely a clarification of the definition of the word "marriage."
What most voters in California object to is not that adults of the same gender are allowed to form a legal partnership, but the idea that they change the definition ...