C: Is for California

Do we have the right to undo what God has put asunder. Obviously not California's Supreme Court, who ruled on Tuesday that 18,000 same-sex marriages performed before the ban were to remain valid. It did however uphold the ban on same sex marriages that voters passed in November. None of this is making sense anymore. Some can be married, some can't? Is it as the saying goes, it's all in the timing? But what about equality? Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa all allow same sex marriages. In 2008 Proposition 8 passed with about 52.5 percent of the vote. This has become a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage. Where is separation between church and state? That is where the problem lies. The District of Columbia voted May 5 to recognize same sex marriages performed elsewhere, though it does not itself give marriage licenses to couples of the same sex. Now that makes sense, right? In New York we are about to face this same question. Gov. David Paterson introduced to legislation in April a bill to make same sex marriage legal. A similar bill died in the state Senate in 2007. In polls a slim majority of Americans are against legal recognition of same sex marriage. Fifty-four percent of Americans questioned say that marriages between gay or lesbian couples should not be recognized as valid, but 44 percent said they should be considered legal. There is however a large gap between ages, with younger people far more likely to approve of gay marriage. The marriage debate has also changed for some Republicans. Steve Schmidt, of Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign said that allowing same sex marriage is in line with the conservative credo of keeping government out of people's private lives. McCain's daughter Meghan recently said the Republican Party needs to embrace issues facing gays and lesbians, approving of same sex marriage.

Issues divide a country and the way to conquer is to divide and this is quickly becoming a F.A.C.T