Giuliani's Same-Sex Marriage Ban In...

Rudy's position: if too many gays get married, then he favors a ban. (i.e., if more states than Massachusetts legalize gay marriage by judicial fiat, then he's consider a constitutional amendment.)

But just a few of them... it's ok.

He's a New Yorker, after all.

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Posted by charlotte | October 22, 2007 12:24 PM

Mr. Giuliani also misses that in many regards, it is state legislatures, not ‘judicial fiat’, which are beginning to side in favor of equal partnership laws. The state legislatures of Connecticut, New York, California, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington, Maine, and Hawaii all adopted, or are currently attempting to adopt, legislation granting legal equality (usually short of marriage…) to gay couples.

The fact that legal equality for gays in these states is coming about through legislative change seems to further confound Giuliani’s position that a Federal Marriage Amendment would only be necessary if too many states recognize marriage equality. What ever happened to federalism? Of course, there is the very real possibility that Giuliani recognizes this and that he was being disingenuous at the Values Voter Summit. Based on his past record of tepid support for gay rights, I doubt he would ever truly consider supporting a Federal Marriage Amendment, as he suggested he might.

On another note, I attended the Values Voter Summit and make a few comments here:

http://schmitzblitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/my-weekend-with-the-christianists/

Posted by Elizabeth Schmitz | October 23, 2007 7:23 PM