REPORT FROM A DEBATE AT UCLA: From the UCLA Daily Bruin

Proponents of both sides of the debate on legalizing same-sex marriage presented their cases before a full house at the UCLA School of Law on Monday in a forum that included a surprise change of speakers.

About 200 people attended the event and heard three guests speak for and against the topic recently thrust into national spotlight. ...

The speakers included nationally syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher and the moderator, UCLA Law Professor William Rubenstein, who joined the debate about halfway through to replace a speaker who did not come. ...

"A person in a same-sex relationship cannot marry strictly because of his/her sex," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a USC law professor. "That is, by definition, gender discrimination."

Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, noted other laws did provide certain benefits to only one group of people but were not considered discriminatory. "Is it age discrimination to require people to be 62 years old to get Social Security benefits?" Gallagher asked. "No, because the reason
Social Security was enacted was to help the elderly." ...

But Chemerinsky said for those people who oppose same-sex marriages, there is a less drastic solution than the outright prohibition of them. "To people that don't like same-sex marriages, I offer a simple solution: Don't marry someone of the same sex."

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