The Scouts were always about family values, not sexual diversity. At 12 we weren't talking about our sex lives, there's nothing awesome about kids doing it at that age, let alone homosexual stuff.
And they still are. The gay kids have families too you know and they are joining the scouts for the exact same reasons the straight kids are. When their sexuality is discovered, they get to stay in the scouts…just like the straight kids. Being gay or saying you are gay isn’t “talking about sex lives”. 12 year olds shouldn’t have sex lives, but they can still know they are gay. I did.
No, you are confused. Your rambling away from it means you can't address the fact. Black men were treated differently than white men.
Right…and that was ruled unconstitutional just like treating gay people differently is being ruled unconstitutional time and again
So that meant that not all men were equal. You're talking about relationships, not individuals. There is no constitutional right to marry anyone you want. There isn't even any state law to that effect now. So far we have gays imitating heterosexual marriage but it will just be a matter of time before that's challenged. Why two people?
Marriage is a fundamental right. It has been declared such by the Supreme Court of the United States on no less than three occasions. In order to deny a fundamental right to a group of people, the state must be able to identify a societal harm in allowing it. Understand now? Using a reasonable person standard, you must be able to identify the societal harm in allowing consenting adult gays and lesbians to legally marry each other. You can’t which is why anti gay marriage laws are being struck down.
Good luck with your Polygamy thing. I really don’t care…and states could use the jobs that will be required to change hundreds of legal codes.
There was only marriage, now there's gay marriage. Even though offspring will not result, so society doesn't benefit from the union. So let's do away withlegalities since it no longer recognizes the special relationship between men and women.
No, there is still only marriage. Two non familial consenting adults voluntarily choosing to legally make decisions for one another. Name the state where procreation is a prerequisite for legal civil marriage. {cue Jeopardy music here). BZZZZTTT sorry, trick question, there isn’t any.
Huh? I said posts ago it wasn't legal. I also said it doesn't relate to gay marriage. I also said opinions don't matter since society is being bullied into it by a very vocal minority.
And I pointed out to you that society didn't want interracial marriage. If "society hadn't been bullied", we would not have allowed blacks to marry whites until the mid 1990s instead of 1967 when "activist judges" ruled in Loving v Virginia. I realize you don't like these uncomfortable parallels pointed out, but they exist none the less.
And yet polygamists have managed for thousands of years. If decision making is your excuse we could make it four people, three in an agreement is a majority. And who are you to say three can't love each other equally? It's hypocritical to accuse the majority of being intolerant while you won't tolerate anything but your view.
No, legalized Polygamy hasn’t really survived all that well…
The more civilized and Democratic a society, the less likely it is for there to be legalized polygamy. Do you know why that is?
That's not an argument, just opinion. Your position is that opinions that differ from your own should not even be considered. Typical.
And that’s a deflection. So, you think that all the
rights, benefits and privileges associated with legal, civil marriage like tax benefits, estate planning, employment benefits, medical benefits, death benefits, etc should just go away? Have fun storming the castle!
You can't connect the dots, apparently. You claimed kids were revealing their homosexuality and getting kicked out of the Scouts. Now you aren't talking about sex?
Ah…you’re suffering under the delusion that in order to be gay, you must have sex. Nope.
