WorldWatcher
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Still can't show that it's a civil RIGHT?So, show us where marriage is a civil "right"
I'll tell you what, show us where sitting in the front of the bus is a civil right. Better yet, show me what gives the government the right to discriminate against gay people.
Freedom of religion is a constitutional right. Some religions proclaim that men can have multiple wives. Yet the government is still allowed to deny people the right to enter into polygamous marriages. This is because possessing a right does not mean that said right is without limits that the government can impose when there is a legitimate public interest being served.
Doesn't the 10th amendment come into play?
The term "Gay Rights" is pure propoganda put out by the left. Nothing more.
Yeah, kinda like that propaganda a few decades ago when dem dirty black folk were complaining about equal civil rights so that they could drink from the same water fountains and eat at the same restaurants as good ol' clean white folk.
It's not!
Fact is, they would get a lot further if they dropped the "RIGHTS" BS.
Call it what it is, a ''WANT"........Fight for the "WANT", more power to them.
And, don't even try and compare it to the cause of blacks.......It's nothing more than tired left wing propoganda, and a slap in the face of the blacks who truly suffered.
Personally I've never viewed Same-sex Civil Marriage as a "Right". To me Civil Marriage is a privilege.
However, to me, Equal Treatment under the law is a "Right" as embodied in the 14th Amendment in it's Privileges and Immunities, Due Process and Equal Protections clauses. And while the Slaughterhouse case pretty much nullified P&I, Equal Protection and Due Process have been recognized as rights.
I have no problem with the government treating individuals or groups differently when there is a compelling government reason to do so. For example I think it's fine to discriminate against blind people by not allowing them to operate a multi-ton vehicle at 65 MPH on public highways. Their right to equal treatment does not override public safety on the roads. However to date, no one has presented a compelling government reason for treating similar situated groups differently. Those groups being law abiding, tax paying, US Citizen, non-related, infertile, consenting, adult same-sex couples and law abiding, tax paying, US Citizen, non-related, infertile, consenting, adult different-sex couples.
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