he very core of equality guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. When the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled to allow same sex marriage it held that "excluding gay couples from civil marriage violated the state constitution" (Rauch 88). Thus politically, denying same sex couples the rights of opposite sex married couples violates the U.S. and state constitutional protections.
Many advocacy groups for civil rights and individual liberties like the ACLU, Lambda Legal and other homosexual advocates fight in favor of same sex marriage. They argue that such individuals should be afforded the Constitutional protection of "equality and due process of law" (Biskupic 01A). Politically, in the 1950s the Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine responsible for segregation of African Americans that virtually created a caste system with respect to legal, political, civil, and econo
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