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English
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The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: Reply to Randolph Muhlestein
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2007
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40
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no.3
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40-67
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Muhlestein lays out his argument in terms of (1) constitutional considerations,
(2) scriptural authority, and (3) sociological and scientific issues.
In the brief section devoted to the first topic, he summarizes the current
status of same-sex marriage in the courts, where proponents seem to
be making slow but steady progress toward general legalization. Acknowledging
that there is no simple way to refute “eloquent” and even “poetic”
legal opinions that would justify same-sex marriage in the light of constitutional
decisions, he falls back on his own rule of thumb for judicial interpretation:
first, would the framers of the constitution(s) “roll over in their
graves” if same-sex marriage were found constitutional? And second,
would a “significant portion of the population” be “outrage[d]” by such
an interpretation? (4)