It's Time to Enact Same-Sex Marriage ; a More Enlightened View of Marriage Will Allow Us to Live Out Jefferson's Call to Move Past Our Barbarous Ancestors.

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"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."

I first read that passage as a child of about 14 or 15. It was a moment that changed my life, and I am quite confident that, had I not stood there, staring at those words inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial, I would not be at this keyboard now.

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It's Time to Enact Same-Sex Marriage ; a More Enlightened View of Marriage Will Allow Us to Live Out Jefferson's Call to Move Past Our Barbarous Ancestors.

It was the end of a long day of sightseeing for me and my family. I'm fuzzy on why we had come to Jefferson at that hour. I remember it was dark. And I remember, too, that I was unimpressed to the point of disgust with Washington. Just two years past Watergat...

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