how is recognizing their natural rights a criminal decree?
What is a
natural right in regards to homosexuality or the act of homosexuality ?
A better term would be
inalienable right as opposed to 'natural'; an inalienable right can be neither taken nor bestowed by any government, constitution, or man.
In the case of gay Americans, it concerns the right to due process and equal protection of the law, where the states may not seek to disadvantage gay Americans through force of law predicated solely on who gay Americans are.
Another fundamental, inalienable right is that of choice, where the substantive component of the 14th Amendment prohibits the state from denying citizens their right to make personal, private decisions with regard to the conduct of one's life: whom to love or marry, whether to have a child or not, and decisions pertaining to how to raise one's child – these and other like matters are immune from attack by the state.
When government is based on negative rights, that is true. Negative rights do not infringe on other's rights.
But you are advocating positive rights. To call that "choice" is retarded, you are advocating one's rights over another. To refer to that as "rights" at all is an oxymoron
Negative rights vs. positive rights--would you provide examples, s'il vous plait.
You know you're on the internet
Negative and positive rights - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Negative rights are the right to be left alone. Free speech, protection from someone breaking into your house, ...
Positive rights are the so called right to demand things from others. The right to housing, healthcare, paper saying you are married to someone, the right to force someone to bake you a cake...
Negative rights are applied to all equally, we all have the right to be left alone from others.
Not so with positive rights. Positive rights infringe on the rights of others, by definition. So a system of positive rights is a system where one group of citizens screw another. You know, like the Democratic party constantly demands