Why may the state recognize a contract formed under an organization not subject to the laws of the state? Why may that state deny certain contracts formed in those churches? Some aspects of a marriage are against the law, while some are made into law.
Civil unions are the realm of the state the those unions are subject to enforcement and management under the state. Marriage is the realm of the spiritual, and is separate from the state. Churches are free to define a sacrament of marriage, and who may participate. The church may NOT call on the state to enforce a church definition. Nor may the state demand that the church must perform the marriage according to the rules of the state.
George Bush would change the equal protection clause of the constitution.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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