To the editor:

When people think about same-sex marriages, they think about the Bible, and how it states that marriage is between a man a women. With that thought, the states are passing amendments to ban same-sex marriages, even though their biases are strictly religion based.

The First Amendment is the freedom of speech, press, and religion. Under religion it states, quoted from the Cornell University Law School, “The establishment clause prohibits the government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or preferring one religion over another. It enforces the separation of church and state.” As long as the First Amendment stands, the amendments to ban same-sex marriages are unconstitutional. Not everyone believes in God. Some Americans are atheists and have no religious guidelines to intervene with marriages. The United States has no designated religion and so cannot base laws off of a religion.

America is going through a change, a change that some people will not like. A change, where a lot of couples will not be of a different gender, but of the same. The world is evolving from a world where the need to produce is high, to a world where people are limited to the amount of children they can have. The Constitution was made, “of the people, for the people”; not of the Christians, for the Christians. If there is no reason, other than religion, why a same-sex couple cannot marry, then there is no right reason for the amendment to pass, or even be brought up.

Monica Conway

Cape Coral