[MMaschin]

There is a basic underlying decision that the court must make to decide this issue.

Is sexual preference a choice or is it innate?

There is no way that the court can avoid that question in it's ruling.

There are also a great many other issues, besides marriage, that will be effected by the courts determination of the above question. Such as medical coverage - the left believes that transsexuals are born that way, and sex change procedures should be covered, if it's ruled a choice then it's elective, and should not be covered. If the court rules that sexuality is a choice, then it's not discriminatory for the military to exclude gays, and transgenders.

This is a very important case, and gay marriage is only a small part. The larger issue is whether or not "sexual preference" is actually preference, or an uncontrollable effect of genetics.

[Hugh the Scot]

You may be right even though that really has nothing at all to do with the question before them. In order to approve gay marriage, it seems that someone would need to prove that homos are being denied a right that someone else has. There is no such right among heterosexuals. No straight person has ever had the right to marry within their own sex, therefore no such right exists to be violated.