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Gay Marriage

Should gay marriage be legal?

McCain would leave the issue of gay marriage to be decided by individual states.

McCain quoted by CNN: "The constitutional amendment [to ban gay marriage] strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans. It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them."
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Obama would leave the issue of gay marriage to be decided by individual states.

Remarks by Obama during a speech in the U.S. Senate: "I agree with most Americans, with Democrats and Republicans, with Vice President Cheney, with over 2,000 religious leaders of all different beliefs, that decisions about marriage, as they always have, should be left to the states."
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