Last
week the Vermont legislature overrode the governor to legalize gay
marriage. The week before, the Iowa Supreme Court achieved the same
result by overriding the state legislature, declaring a 1998 ban on
same-sex marriage unconstitutional. If you think the benefits of
civil marriage should be available to all couples regardless of
sexual orientation, should you care how we get there? Senior Editor
Jacob Sullum argues that you should, because the approach taken in
Iowa, although liberty-enhancing in that case, ultimately
undermines a constitution's ability to constrain government action
and protect individual freedom.
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