There's an old joke about allowing gays to get married. The punch line goes something like this: "Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?"
Humor like that serves as a self-deprecating distraction for some, but it's a serious debate that has been waged for decades. At first it was an issue that popped up occasionally in a few states and has grown to a full-on nationwide controversy.
In recent years, the debate over gay marriage has been heard in the halls of Congress, at the...
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