place in other states.However as much as the right wing conservatives wish to pursue anaggressive anti-gay/lifestyle agenda the DOMA act has been widely criticized asintensely unconstitutional. It is bias and discriminatory toward homosexuals andthere fore against the United States Constitution and once again the fourteenthamendment proclaiming all citizens equal. Fearing that the state may have to recognize same-gender marriages fromHawaii, because of the controversy over DOMA the state legislatures of Arizona,South Dakota, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Idaho, and Georgia, have made preemptivestrikes and enacted state legislation which bars recognition of same-gendermarriages. Several other state legislatures, including Alabama, Arkansas,California, Delaware, Louisiana, New Mexico, Kentucky, Maine, South Carolina andWisconsin, have attempted to enact similar legislation, but failed. AfterHawaiian marriages are brought to these states for enforcement, these laws willlead each state into a potential separate constitutional challenge of its same-gender marriage ban. Those cases could be the new foundation for a sweepingchange in popular American politics and thought and will perhaps pave the roadfor increased awareness of this human rights issue. Leaving aside, as government should, objections that may be held byparticular religions, the case against same-gender marriage is simply thatpeople are unaccustomed to it. Bigotry and prejudice still exist in our evolvingsociety, and traditionally people fear what is strange and unfamiliar to them.One may argue that change should not be pushed along hastily. At the same time,it is an argument for legalizing homosexual marriage through consensual politicsas in Denmark, rather than by court order, as may happen in Hawaii....
