Speaker: Marriage is for all


WATERVILLE -- Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man, fundamental to existence and survival, lecturer Andrew Sullivan -- a conservative, gay Roman Catholic -- told an audience at Colby College on Wednesday night.
So when government offers the privileges and benefits of love, fidelity and family to one group and not to others, then some people will not be equal under the law, he said.
"Anyone in this country has not only the ability to marry, but the absolute right to marry," Sullivan, a nationally known advocate for same-sex marriage and a former editor of The New Republic magazine told a packed Page Commons. "The right to marry is so fundamental to your very identity as a human being, the most basic freedom imaginable."