Today, many gay couples are denied the right to have same sex marriage. As a result gay people are faced with civil rights issues that have nothing whatever to do with the ecclesiastical origins of marriage; they are excluded from the state constitutional rights that only legal married couples can enjoy. Ever since Vermont and Hawaii made it clear that gay marriages are legal inside their states, many gay couples have eloped into one of …showed first 75 words of 2013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2013 total…amp;gt;In conclusion, if the government wants to claim they represent a democratic nation then they should not ratify the FMA, which violates and discriminates against a minority group. The reason why are founding fathers created the concept of amending the constitution was to provide a way of modifying our laws as a new concepts in situation occurred. Amendments are not methods in which one group's opinions can take away the rights of another's.