Boss
Take a Memo:
Brown: You said and I quote, "the courts were wrong, slaves were not property." Now you say: It certainly existed and the courts upheld it. Were they RIGHT or WRONG? I think most people who aren't retarded idiots believe they were WRONG! Which WAS my point.... Courts are not always RIGHT! The courts are there to uphold the law, the law at the time was slavery is legal and slaves are property. What you mean to say is laws are not always good laws.
The courts are NOT there to uphold the law. That is the responsibility of law enforcement. Courts are there to rule whether laws are constitutional, especially Federal courts. No, what I mean to say is what I said, the courts are not always right.
I'm using the definition of sexuality, I even posted it for you. What definition of sexuality are you using?
Marriage is the union of a man and woman, without regard for any sexuality. No you don't get to define the term marriage any more than I do, show me a link to a reference that defines marriage as a union without regard for any sexuality. If it was without regard for any sexuality then by definition it would not be man and woman only. Again you appear to not understand the meanings of words.
I didn't redefine it, that's what marriage is and has always been. No marriage law in ANY state even mentions sexuality. You are applying sexuality to "man and woman" as if that's stated, and it is not. You are ASSUMING a "man and woman" means "heterosexual" and that isn't what the law says. You're the one who has repeatedly demonstrated your illiteracy, don't bring my understanding of words up until you get some more education.
They can be heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, doesn't matter. Nothing to do with it. They have to be a man and woman, they have to be of legal age, they have to consent, they have to not be related, they have to be living, they can't already be married to someone, they have to pay for a license. It's not an inherent right, it never has been. The right to marry has always been an inherent right, and it still is. You're not even on the correct planet with that statement.
Well, no hard head, it's simply NOT. I am not endowed with the inalienable right to marry someone, there are a myriad of criteria that first have to be met. The other person must be of the opposite gender, they must consent, they must be of legal age, they must be living, they can't be related, they can't already be married, they have to be human, etc. I may not ever find a person who meets those qualifications. If I happen to, and I want to get a marriage license from my state, I have to pay a fee like everyone else, and I can do that whether I am gay or straight, black or white, it does not matter.
And INHERENT right (not INHERIT) is a right you have inherently by being a human being. Like, you have the right to live.... you have the right to privacy... you have the right to remain silent... to be secure in your property... those are inherent rights. You can't go get a driver's licence if you are not qualified to drive, you can't go get a plumber's licence if you don't meet the criteria, those are NOT inherent rights.
Huh? Where is the law that forces you to be married to have children?
Why do you keep reading my posts and then pretend I am saying some off-the-wall shit I never said? Are you THAT stupid? Really? I never said this, don't know where you got that from. Let's try and stick to what I am posting and not what your sociopathic mind is telling you.
Yes.
No.
Should be restricted.
Wrong, drunk drivers are not very good drivers.
They should be hung.
Wrong, they are causing harm to those children.
We restrict their liberties because society has deemed it morally repugnant.
So basically, we need to make you our KING and allow YOU to make the determinations on our liberty as YOU see fit? That's what you are saying here. I presented a plethora of examples where our laws establish very clear limits on our liberties. We simply DON'T get to do whatever feels good!
We restrict their liberties because society has deemed it morally repugnant.
...BINGO! We don't KNOW every drunk driver or how well they may drive, we pass a law that applies to everyone because there is a very good probability a drunk driver might endanger the lives of others. We pass laws against child porn and pedophilia because it is harmful to children. We establish arbitrary age restrictions on things for the same reason. BECAUSE SOCIETY HAS DEEMED... not because some idiot liberal moans and screams about his fake rights being violated and gets an emotive judge to rule in his favor!
Gay marriage is a direct assault on the moral fabric of society because it undermines the principles of family structure which is VITAL to raising future generations. That is morally repugnant to many and harms society in ways we can't even imagine in present tense. Furthermore, it seeks to set in stone an establishment of government sanction for specific human sexuality and protect it by law through marriage. The ramifications of this are not tolerable because of the equal protection clause. Once this is established as constitutional law, the wheels come off with regard to all sorts of deviant sexual behaviors you DON'T wish to protect. BUT... since you've done this for homosexuals, you MUST do it for others, the Constitution is clear on that.
Again... hate to keep harping on it, but MY solution avoids ALL of that. It removes any semblance of human sexuality from the process and protects the sanctity of marriage while allowing homosexual couples to gain the legal benefits they seek. Government is taken out of the role of determining what is proper sexual behavior or endorsing ANY domestic arrangement. And that's how it SHOULD be.