e definition of who could get married and who could not. Although, the terms were written in away that it indicated only heterosexual couples could marry. Gay rights activists feel that their rights are being violated under the constitutions’ Equal Protection Clause and Equal Rights Amendment. Peggy Wehmeyer of ABC News reported on Prop. 22 saying, “advocates said the measure isn’t about discrimination. They maintain it’s about closing a legal loophole to prevent gays and lesbians from ever being able to marry somewhere else and have the marriage recognized in California.” Legislation enacted by President Clinton called the “Defense of Marriage Act” allowed individual states to react differently to any interruptions of marriage that they feel is not proper. Allowing each individual state to decide wither or not to recognize same sex marriages. Recognition of marriage principles derived from choice-of-law and full faith-and-credit rules will most likely be revoked to recognize same sex marriages valid in the states. Marriage is a public act and is performed by a legally designated people, and is an act by the state. Gay couples consider the issue to be a matter of equality, and deserved the same legal rights to marry.The debate over the legalization of same sex marriages has been a seesaw battle between gay activists and religious conservatives, over what is right and what is moral. Supporters of banning same sex marriages feel that it is wrong to unite members of the same gender in marriage, because it is morally wrong for them to engage in physical relations. But who the hell are they to judge what people can and cannot do. There is no logical reason why marriage should be denied to million of homosexuals who want to get married. By denying homosexuals marriage, the government is denying them their rights as U.S. citizens, and the denial of their rights is as un-American as it can be....
