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Originally posted by SigmaChiCard
equal protection rights under the 5th and 14th Amendment. This would affect people the way people were affected when they were no longer able to legally discriminate against people for other reasons such as race or sex.
True it couldn't happen in a vacuum...but the the thing is that it wouldn't deny anyone else any legal right...states should not have the right to chose which constitutional marriages they recognize no more than the officer should be able to pull the kid's car over because he is ____fill in the blank___. That isn't a right they have, so to deny them doing it, isn't exactly imposing.
If I have a no black person hiring policy, you can sue me. That is how straight people will be affected by constitutionally recognized same-sex marriages.
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There has been a lot of good discussion on this subject since I last posted, but here's what I think. The reason I pointed out the legal ramifications that will result from legalizing gay marriage was to refute one of the main defenses of gay marriage, which is "what business is it of society's what someone else does in their bedroom." There's no way possible for everyone not to be affected. And because of that, you have to deal with society's opinion on the issue. Second, people have a right to sleep with goats if they want to, but when you want to tamper with marriage, the bedrock of society, everyone's opinion does matter. I mean where does it end?? When people shoot up cocaine in the privacy of their own homes..its a victimless crime. WHy do we care? Because of the effects people feel it will have on society. And people look at legalizing gay marriage as threatening the bedrock of civilization, the erosion of morals, and the beginning of a downward spiral in to a moralLess society. I know everyone on here things 2 daddies and 2 mommies are ok..but the Americans that went to the polls last week showed overwhelmingly that they dont think its ok.
Third, it is very ignorant to compare any aspect of the civil rights movement to the homosexual movement. The jury is not out on whether people are born black..That's pretty much a fact. I cannot turn my life over to Christ and change my race. I cannot decide I'm going through a phase..and stop being black.