Comments on: Bob Barr to keynote Log Cabin convention http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/03/29/bob-barr-to-keynote-log-cabin-convention/ the gay community's news source Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Skeeter Sanders http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/03/29/bob-barr-to-keynote-log-cabin-convention/#comment-19582 Skeeter Sanders Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:18:31 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=19466#comment-19582 I’ve argued for years now that the Defense of marriage Act and all state laws that restrict marriage to opposite-gender couples all violate not only the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws (the basis for federal Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling against California’s Proposition 8 and the Supreme Court’s landmark 1967 ruling that struck down laws barring interracial marriages), but also uniquely constitutes a government endorsement of anti-gay religious doctrines in clear violation of the Religious Test Clause of the Constitution (Article VI, Section 2) — Not to mention the Establishment of Religion Clause of the First Amendment.

That no one else has used the separation-of-church-and-state argument against these laws is utterly astounding to me.

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