All American citizens must be held to identical standards with respect to basic civil rights. Marriage is a union between two individuals that share principle freedoms -- as held by our constitution and bill of rights. If [t]hese rights are to be color blind then they must be gender blind as well; free of religion's decision making role.
Progressive Centralists are proposing the National Marriage Equality Act of 2012 -- commence with vacating all state laws that prohibit equality in marriage and federally subjugate equal rights to all marriage unions through the U.S.; regardless of gender.
It is time for the U.S Government to recognize marriage as a basic civil right and bring a timely end to virulent discrimination; rights must not be deliberated through the eyes of religious teachings.