Hello, I'm John Donvan, moderator of Intelligent Squared U.S. Join us online at iq2us.org

to vote on the motion and keep the debate going.

Same-sex marriage, everybody's got to view on it more states than ever before are licensing

it, but in most cases that was not initially because of a law being passed in Shrinning

same-sex marriage as a right, most often it was because courts struck down laws that

were passed against it.

Judges are making the call using the Constitution for their guide, which is a different filter

on the issue from the ones that most of us use, but what then does the Constitution

tell us about same-sex marriage?

Well, it sounds like there must be a debate in that, so let's have it.

Yes or no to this statement.

The Equal Protection Clause does not require states to license same-sex marriages.

A debate from Intelligent Squared U.S., I'm John Donvan, we are in Philadelphia partnering

with the National Constitution Center for one of our Constitutional debate series programs.

We have four superbly qualified debaters, our debate will go in three rounds, and then

our live audience here in Philadelphia will vote to choose the winner and only one side

wins.

Let's meet our debaters first of all.

Ladies and gentlemen, John Eastman.

John, welcome.

You are Chairman of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage, a professor at

Chapman University's Fowler School of Law and Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional

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