That "gays can marry someone of the opposite sex" argument sounds vaguely familiar...where have I heard it before?
The fifth, and final, argument judges would use to justify miscegenation law was undoubtedly the most important; it used these claims that interracial marriage was unnatural and immoral to find a way around the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "equal protection under the laws." How did judges do this? They insisted that because miscegenation laws punished both the black and white partners to an interracial marriage, they affected blacks and whites "equally." This argument, which is usually called the equal application claim, was hammered out in state supreme courts in the late 1870s, endorsed by the United States Supreme Court in 1882, and would be repeated by judges for the next 85 years.
Why the Ugly Rhetoric Against Gay Marriage Is Familiar to this Historian of Miscegenation
When anti miscegenation laws were struck down, that argument was finally rejected (and it set a precedent)
Sexual orientation is innate...acting out on it is the behavior. Both gay and straight sex is a behavior, but the attractions are innate.
Neither "behaviors" are illegal. Murder and theft are both crimes. Consenting adults ******* is not a crime. Do you propose to criminalize consenting adult sexual behavior?
What responsibility sustains your right to be heterosexual? What responsibility sustains your right to your free exercise of religion?
Even if you insist against all scientific research and the testimony of gays themselves who say that their sexual orientation is not a choice, in a free society what difference does it make?
Gays don't have to establish a societal benefit in their being married or simply being, you have to demonstrate a societal harm in allowing gays to marry or exist. So far? Epic fail.
My 'right to be' a heterosexual, would be sustained by my responsibility to not exercise that right to the detriment of another to exercise their own right.
My right to freely exercise my religion is sustained by my not exercising my religion to the detriment of the means of another to exercise their own.
For instance, I would not exercise my right to be sexually normal, in such a way that would threaten the means to another to exercise their right to be sexually normal.
And as far as that goes, I do not exercise my rights in any way that threatens the means of others to be sexually abnormal, as long as they are not subjectively rationalizing that their need for sexual gratification overrides my right to recognize, respect, defend and adhere to the soundly reasoned principles of nature, which provide that Children are not suitable sexual partners.
Now the thing about right sustaining responsibilities is that, where someone threatens one's means to exercise their rights, it falls to the righteous to defend themselves from that threat.
This is me, defending my means to exercise my right to reason objectively, which is sustained by my responsibility to not exercise my right to the detriment of another to do the same.
Which is threatened by those who eschew objectivity.
To take it a step further, I claim the right to keep my sexual life private. In sustaining that right I bear the responsibility to not publicly discuss my sexual life. I do not require the culture to salute my sexual desires. As I require the public to leave me alone on the subject.
I don't go out and lobby congress to allow me to marry. I don't ask for permission from anyone to do what I am rightfully entitled to do. I just do it.
This in contrast say, YOU, who requires that the public RECOGNIZE you as a person who craves sexual gratification from people of her own gender.
IF I were saddled with such, I'd just go about my business and wouldn't ask anyone to accept it or not. As, I do not give a red rat's ass what anyone thinks about my sexual life. But it truth, it's never come up, BECAUSE: I DO NOT DISCUSS THAT WHICH IS PRIVATE, IN PUBLIC.
See how that works?
Here, say it with me: "I DO NOT DISCUSS THAT WHICH IS PRIVATE, IN PUBLIC."
Doesn't that feel good? It frees you, doesn't it?
There're those things which are appropriate for public discourse and those things which are PRIVATE, thus are INAPPROPRIATE for public discourse.
YOU, on the other hand, CLAIM the right to sexual privacy, while you simultaneously PROMOTE YOUR SEXUAL LIFE, going so far as to DEFINE YOURSELF, BY YOUR SEXUALITY.
You are sexually abnormal, great, who gives a ****, as long as ya stay away from the kids.
But, it's not enough for you to just BE what you are, which is what you people claim to want.
No, NO! You can't even be satisfied with EVERYONE SALUTING YOU FOR WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE! You NEED THE ENTIRE WORLD TO PRETEND THAT YOUR NORMAL, WHEN YOU ARE DECIDEDLY ABNORMAL.
You claim that you're just being honest, when EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR MOVEMENT IS A LIE!
We call this INSANITY.
Anything gettin' through here?