BARR ON FMA: Lisa Schiffren
[Lisa is a New York-based writer and a former speechwriter for Vice President Dan Quayle]
I do not understand what the defense of marriage act accomplishes if it means that the federal government defines marriage as limited to a union of one man and one woman, and yet the states are free to override that definition or expand it to include two people of the same sex. Also, I suppose I think that marriage is so fundamental a building block of what is certainly a national society and culture -- in ways that alcohol use or firearms ownership or property tax rates are not -- that there is an overriding need for the nation to have one standard, even if there are differences in mores between localities.
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