We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident

Regardless of your political or religious affiliation or your personal feelings about same sex marriage, discrimination of any individual should not be tolerated in our country. If you firmly believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights then you too should be supportive of equal rights for all. If we are all created equal, how can you justify discrimination of another?  You can't pick and choose which parts of the Constitution you support. As ambiguous a document it is, individual rights are clearly defined.

This line from the movie American President summarizes this issue quite well. "America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free".

I believe it is patriotic to stand up for equal rights for all. Many people wax poetic about Jefferson’s most famous line in the Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The question to ask yourself is do you truly believe this? If so, then we should all react with righteous indignation when we see a fellow citizen treated with injustice.