POL 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Constitutional Issues

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• POL 303 Week 3 DQ 2 Constitutional Issues Related
  to Same-gender Marriage
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• In 2012 the Armed Services Committee of the House
  of Representatives adopted, by a party-line vote,
  an amendment to the military defense budget for
  2013 that would prohibit same-gender marriage
  ceremonies in base chapels serving members of the
  U.S. Armed Forces.
• If this amendment is enacted into law, it will
  change current Defense Department policy that
  allows use of chapels for religious marriage
  ceremonies on sexual-orientation neutral basis.
• If by law the government denies a same-gender
  military couple permission to hold a religiously
  authorized marriage ceremony in a base chapel,
  would such denial violate the Constitution?
  Respond to this question in your initial post.
  Fully explain the constitutionally-based reasons
  for your position, considering both the Due
  Process and Equal Protection Clauses and the
  following cases
• The Supreme Courts unanimous decision in Loving
  v. Virginia (1967).
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• The rationales of the Supreme Court's majority or
  dissenting opinions in Lawrence and Garner v.
  Texas.
• The rationales of the Courts majority or
  dissenting opinions in United States v. Virginia
  (the VMI case).
• The rationales of various judicial opinions in
  recent federal court litigation about the
  constitutionality of Californias Proposition 8
  outlawing same-gender marriage.
• Avoid discussion of your personal opinions about
  same-gender marriage. Instead, focus on the
  constitutional issues that may be raised by the
  specific circumstances of the proposed law that
  would ban the use of military base chapels for
  such marriage ceremonies. 
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