There is a movement to Legitimatize Pedophilia. It angers most of us, but that does not stop the few from trying to Social Engineer it, even in a way to put those of us against it, on the defensive, as if there is something wrong with us, like we are Anti-Progressive. For Anyone that is not spoon fed, the reasoning is even more offensive.
Such persons constitute an extremely tiny minority, they’re consequently in no position to ‘social engineer’ anything. Anyone they manage to put on the defensive has only himself to blame, and they have noting to do with being ‘progressive.’
Indeed, to mention pedophilia along with homosexuality is idiotic, one has noting to do with the other, as laws banning pedophilia are Constitutional given theyÂ’re applied equally to all persons.
Once perversion and abnormality is accepted as normal behavior it doesn't stop with YOUR particular brand of abnormality. Your flavor of the month is quickly followed by another and another after that. It is how cultures degrade. You drew your own little line in the sand, right after gay marriage. It stops right there! Except it doesn't. There is another perversion right after yours and of course their line in the sand will be right after their particular perversioin.
Homosexuality is neither a perversion nor is it abnormal, it hasnÂ’t been considered such for almost 40 years. Your argument fails accordingly.
If you were to tell the particpants in the Loving decision that someday that decision would be used to justify gay marriage, no doubt they would be horrified and tell you that will never happen. That decision was in 1967. In 1967 there is no way they would have possibly imagined the issue of same sex marriage would be legalized, much less their legal action used to justify it. Just as the advances that you make today will be used to justify practices that you find reprehensible. In 44 years what do you think will be morally unjustified?
Loving reaffirmed the fundamental right to marriage and struck down laws that singled out particular groups of persons for exclusion. As with
Loving, in
Perry the state failed to provide a compelling reason to justify exclusion.
Majorities donÂ’t determine civil rights, states are not authorized to violate fundamental rights; the 14th Amendment ensures a consistent application of the laws among the 50 states.
The foundation of the Constitution is the rule of law, and the rule of law is designed to protect citizens from the tyranny of the majority.
It is not a civil rights issue. It is a FINANCIAL issue. Examples: Social security benefits - widow(er), orphan, etc.; health insurance coverage. Nobody wants to add more entitlements to and already overloaded system of entitlements!
Clearly the case law renders this incorrect; and equal access to benefits and other financial considerations is a perfectly legitimate motive.
Some provision needs to be made for gay couples and gay families. There is no doubt that gay families have always existed although the mechanism for their formation might have been different. There is no doubt at all that they need protection. Marriage isn't it. Marriage itself is weakened as an institution enough as it is. The society no longer supports marriage. Since the nuclear family is the building block of any culture when that totally fails, the rest of it fails quite quickly after that. I suspect that to be the problem in Europe and why islam is so strong and getting stronger. They have intact families putting the European children at a distinct cultural disadvantage.
This is completely unsupported by case law. There is also no evidence in support, either.