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[[Category:Issues]]
In the original version of Issuepedia, there was a fairly extensive section about this issue. I plan to reconstruct it when I have time. For now, I needed a place to put some links.
==News==
* '''2006-02-13''' [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/bsj-cpl021006.php Civil partnerships likely to boost health of gay and lesbian people]
* '''2006-01-21''' [[Wikinews:Maryland Judge throws out law banning gay marriages|Maryland Judge throws out law banning gay marriages]]
* '''2005-07-21''' [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Canada_becomes_4th_nation_to_allow_same-sex_marriage Canada becomes 4<sup>th</sup> nation to allow same-sex marriage]
** '''2005-06-28''' [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/28/samesex050628.html Same-Sex Marriage Legislation Passed in Canada]
* '''2005-07-05''' [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ_endorses_same-sex_marriage,_largest_Christian_denomination_to_do_so Church of Christ endorses same-sex marriage]
* '''2005-07-01''' [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Spain_legalizes_same-sex_marriage Spain legalizes same-sex marriage]

==Opinion==
* A cogent opinion by [http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html Orson Scott Card], and related comments by [http://www.aeire.com/postings/1112515182.shtml Aeire]
==Arguments and Responses==
* �gay marriage� is a contradiction in terms
** This is a definitional argument, and it often confuses the issue. My understanding is that what gay people want, when they say they want the right to "marry", is the right to the legal recognitions and protections that come with marriage. There is no inherent contradiction to gay people being given those rights and protections, so the speaker who sees a contradiction must be defining "marriage" in some other way. A possible compromise position would be to separate the two &ndash; tie the legal rights to a word other than "marriage", and apply that universally. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 08:28, 16 Feb 2006 (CST)
==Inquiries==
* What arguments can be leveled against gay marriage that cannot be leveled against interracial marriage? (see [[wikipedia:Loving v. Virginia]]; apparently, at the time of this decision, more people were against interracial marriage than are now against gay marriage &ndash; not that this proves anything, but it shows how opinion can change given a few decades)