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My question for the Virginia Senate candidates:
    Would you push for same-sex marriage to be legal recognized in Virginia? How about in America?

A huge difference between the Democratic and Republican platforms is stance on same-sex marriage (hence my question above). Acceptance of gay people has been more affiliated with the Democratic party, and their platform this year did not change that. They said that, "gay rights are human rights." However, I was expecting a more gusto paragraph that proposed to make same-sex marriage in the United States. On the other end of the spectrum, the Republican platform made an argument defending "traditional marriage" as it is scientifically proven to be the "best for children." The platform does define traditional marriage as a union between one man and one woman. In the same way that I thought that it was interesting for the Democrats to  not be more gun-ho, the last line of the paragraph in the Republican marriage is also intriguing, "We embrace the principle that all Americans should be treated with respect and dignity." Both platforms seemed to try to be a little bit moderate, but in the end both platforms offered different views on same-sex marriage with the Democratic platform endorsing it and the Republican platform opposing it.