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RE: Dean Dana inhibits dialogue …
Dean Dana’s remarks as chronicled in the Nov. 5 Maine Campus showed true leadership. He is doing his job very well.
This issue of discrimination through rights to marriage is very simple. I hope Dr. Dana continues to show students that now is always a good time to do the right thing.
— Robert
I would say that supporters of same-sex marriage view this as a moral issue as well. Matters of civil rights and equal protection are value-laden, so I would think most supporters consider it a moral imperative to extend protections to same-sex couples.
As far as opponents of same-sex marriage viewing this as solely a matter of morality — not one of discrimination — I would say that, to define “traditional marriage” as the only morally acceptable form of marriage is to disparage same-sex marriage as immoral (you essentially said as much when you said society should be careful not endorse something that is immoral).
Immoral or not, same-sex marriage would provide legal rights, so it’s impossible to divorce the “morality” of opposing it from the reality of also discriminating against a group of people.
— Derek Dobachesky
Bangor Daily News