New York Righteously Passes Gay Marriage

The New York state legislature is currently taking up the issue of whether gay people should be able to legally marry.
In so many ways, same sex marriage is the same kind of civil rights issue that black people faced in the 1960s.
There is no rational reason to discriminate against gay marriage. The only argument that opponents can muster is that homosexuality is admonished in the bible and that the word marriage connotes a bond between the parties and God.
The problem is that we have separation of church and state in America and our religious institutions do not get to tell our civil institutions how to conduct government. However, in a democracy the people get to tell elected representatives how to vote according to their wishes. They do not get to tell a court or judge how to rule under a constitution. Thus, even in Iowa, the court held that under the Iowa constitution gays can marry. The people’s reverse was voting these justices out of office for following the constitution.
This week, New York State has the chance to become the ninth state in the U.S. to allow some sort of same sex civil union or marriage. Fifty years from now all states will likely permit the same.
Peoples’ attitudes are changing as well. Recently, for the first time more than 50 percent of the population supports the same sex marriage. Most people change their minds or come to accept the natural inclinations of gay people to be themselves, their true selves, because so many people have gay people in their own families who they truly love they do not want them to be discriminated against. Others see it as a social justice issue. Either way, the time for full acceptance of gay people and gay marriage has arrived.