Entry 6-Amendment 10

Source
California's Gay Marriage Ban Extended August 16, 2010
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/08/16/californias-gay-marriage-ban-extended/

Constitution
Amendment 10 "powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution nor prohibited.....are reserved to the states respectively"
Connection
This article is about people in California that cannot marry someone of the same sex.  People feel that they should not be able to marry because it is "protecting" them as individuals.  They think it is protecting them because people who are against same sex marriage with assault some who is a gay/lesbian.  It also states prop 8 which is proposition 8 (California's Marriage Rights).  The court is trying to decide what would be best for everyone both the gays/lesbians and the people who are against it. 

In the Constitution it states that "the powers not to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states".  This means that if something is not inside of the constitution then the states have the right to make up their own laws.  Inside of California they made a law stating that same sex marriage is banned. The state is able to do this because inside of the constitution there is no amendment or article dealing with marriage. John Locke stated that people are entitled to "natural rights" which are life, liberty, and property.  Liberty means that a person should be able to behave on his/her personal responsibilty/free will.  Loving someone is apart of liberty because you decide on your own to want to be with that person or not.

If you fall in love with someone and want to spend the rest of your life with him/her you should be able to.  With all relationships, problems occur but it only makes your relationship stronger and better.  Taking away someone's natural rights are like making them a slave.  Not being able to marry same sex will force people to marry someone of the opposite sex and have affairs with his/her other mate which then causes people to get hurt. This may all be avoided if they take the ban off of same sex marriage.