[Rudey]

What you consider rights, someone else might not.

-Rudey

Originally posted by godfrey n. glad
It really doesn't matter what he imagined would ever happen or not. He and our founders espoused equality for all humans and wrote it right into the Constitution. If modern times have brought to our attention issues that have helped us decide that, after all, not all people are created equal, then admit it.

That's my beef with conservatives on this one. Whatever the reasoning behind all this, they are quite clearly calling for the refusal of certain rights to certain people which is not consistent with equal rights for all humans. Whether that's ok or not, I just think they should admit it and deal with it. I think it is hypocritical and unfair that these people can say they live in the greatest country in the wolrd and are 100% behind equality for everyone, then when they realize there are people they don't want to give eqaulity to, they try to shove it under the carpet.

I personally am supportive of gay marriage, but if we refuse to give a certain set of people rights, while giving another set of people those same refused rights, I think we should all be grown-ups and agree that the US is not a place of equal opportunity for all. Again, whether that is morally right or wrong doesn't matter, but you shouldn't get to say it if you really don't espouse it!