Social justice is just a weasel term to describe people who think they know better than me how to live my live, and use unearned status and unwarranted gravitas to get that.
Nobody is telling you how to live your life.
We just think gays, minorities and women should be able to live their lives on an equal footing.
Check your privilege, *****!
Wow, you tell me no one is telling me how to live my life, then tell me to check my privilege. A classic example of doublethink.
Of course a ducktalker like you would be good at that.
And you don't want equality, you want punishment for those you don't like.
Let's see, you want to ban gay marriage. Why? Because you're not gay and you don't like it? What difference does it make to you if two men or two women get married? That you think that YOU should not have to extend rights to them or acknowledge their existence is the very definition of "privilege".
The bald fact is that rights for others aren't diminishing your rights or doing YOU harm, and yet you oppose gay marriage. The amount of opposition that those in the position of privilege in the US exercise in suppressing the rights of minorities is appalling.
When gay marriage was legalized in Canada, absolutely nothing in my life changed. Nothing. As a straight, married woman, my life went on exactly as before. It made no difference whatsoever. And yet American conservatives are appoplectic over gay marriage in the USA. Why?
Why can Americans not let other people live their lives in peace. Why must religious conservatives inflict their beliefs and values on the entire fabric of American culture. Why is there a tyanny of theocratic values which do not reflect the marjority of Americans' values.
Fully 80% of American are in favour of abortion, and gay marriage. But we have this loud, vociferous band of religious zealots who are trying to force the government to codify their beliefs that these practices violate God's laws, even though neither practice is mentioned at all in "God's laws" - aka The 10 Commandments.
It is possible to live your entire life without having to deal with either homosexuality or abortion and leave others to live by their own personal beliefs as well.
1. I don't want to ban gay marriage. i supported NY allowing it via legislative action. My issue is with forcing other States to issue them if they don't want to. To me all Obergfell should have done is require all States to recognize out of State marriage licenses, even SSM ones, as part of full faith and credit.
So your entire rant is based on a false premise.
Why can't the baker live in peace? Why should he be forced to perform a contracted, non-timely, non-required service simply because not doing so hurts the feelings of someone else?
That 80% in favor of abortion also probably contains a majority that are OK with restricting it to the 1st trimester unless medically needed.
It is patently ridiculous to leave the matter of gay marriage up to the state. A patchwork quilt of laws simply will not work. Let's look at the reasons why:
Let's assume you get your way and this matter is left up to the states. If John and Jim get married in New York, where gay marriage is legal, and John's employers transfer him to Alabama where it's not, what happens to their marriage in Alabama?
1. Will Jim continue to receive coverage through John's workplace health insurance, since they are no longer deemed to be married?
2. If Jim becomes ill and is hospitalized, will John be considered "next of kin" in terms of making medical decisions if Jim can't.
3. Will the state recognize both men as parents of their adopted child?
4. What about property laws in the event that the couple splits?
The idea of states controlling marriage and education based on local needs and mores was one thing when the vast majority of the population was born, living and died within a 50 mile radius, as in the days of the Founders, but in the 21st Century, when families move from state to state, there needs to be national standards, especially in terms of marriage, divorce and property settlements so that when you get married in one state and move to another, the laws which govern your partnership shouldn't change when you move.
Ditto education. I understand that what you needed to know to find employment and contribute to society growing up in 1800 in New York, was vastly different from what you needed to know growing up in a rural community in Alabama, and that in 1800 it made sense to have states control education because who better to understand local needs, but in 21st Century America, your children shouldn't have to cope with an entirely different cirriculum when their parents move to a different state. Today, there are certain things that every American needs to know to grow up and become gainfully employed and a contributing member of society, and Americans are failing miserably to do this.