<Tab/>In an article entitled "Gay marriages stir up conservatives again", Mary Leonard discusses a political movement against gay marriage and activists' aims to enact a federal constitutional amendment permitting only heterosexual marriage and making presidential candidates to take action on same-sex union. Conservatives are trying to prevent gay rights from expanding, by means of pulpits, petitions, and political action committees. Reverend Jerry Falwell declared that he was pushing for a …showed first 75 words of 457 total…

…showed last 75 words of 457 total…to the attention the fact that the Constitution says that all men are created equal. If this is the case why is it not legal for gays to marry, we heterosexuals do it. I think that passing the amendment would segregate gays, in a way, because heterosexuals are, in fact, given the privilege (or "right") to marry. The whole gay union issue is more of a religious and moral issue rather than a rights issue.