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Staff Editorial 11/23
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While most of the country celebrated Barack Obama’s historic win as president-elect of the United States last week, many Americans were dealt a very personal blow on election night.
The Sophian would like to pay due attention to the irony that during the very same election that the United States selected a black man to serve as our president and consequently celebrated this as a testament to the end of racial prejudice, Americans in four states voted to take rights away from another group of Americans. Ballot measures in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas banned homosexual couples either from marrying or from adopting children.
It is tragic that the country can be so deluded by homosexual prejudice that it can recognize the ludicrousness of the previous ban on interracial marriage just a few decades ago, but not realize that millions of homosexual Americans are suffering the same prejudicial situation as interracial couples did 40 years ago.
Proposition 8 in California and the corresponding initiatives in other states are testament to the blindness that comes with prejudice. Americans can congratulate themselves for being able to look beyond skin color when it comes to electing a president, but concurrently have taken direct action to ensure that the rights of an entire demographic of Americans are denied based only on their sexual preference.
The Sophian believes not only that the passage of these initiatives is based in prejudice but that they are also unconstitutional, violating gay Americans’ rights to marry based on the religious beliefs of certain groups. It is unconstitutional to write religion into a state constitution, and barring homosexuals from their right to marry would be doing so. It is our hope that the Supreme Court realizes this, and that Americans everywhere begin to recognize that just as the interracial marriage laws of our country’s past were unconstitutional and based in hateful prejudiced notions, so would be constitutional bans against the rights of homosexual couples.
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