James Everett
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- Nov 14, 2014
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No,You've purposefully ignored everything people have posted that contradicts your insanityOh, now that's rich!Dictionaries? I was talking about laws. Sources were cited numerous occasions. You've just chosen to ignore themI beg to differ. Every legal definition that I have sourced states the opposite, of your assertion of gender neutrality. Every legal dictionary wherein I have sought the legal definition of a marriage contract defines such as being between a man and woman, husband and wife. Please cite your source that states otherwise.1) No, I am stating fact. The SCOTUS is being asked to grant a right to same sex couples to marry based on the 14th amendment. Correct?
2) If they render an opinion that same sex couples have a right to enter into a marriage contract, then they are allowing via their opinion the re- defining of a marriage contract to be that of same sex couples... Correct?
1) Partly, yes: not a bad primer: Five key arguments loom in gay marriage case
2) No. You're a bit confused here. No problem, people on both sides are. They won't be re-defining a marriage contract to include same sex couples. They will be saying same sex couples have the same right to a marriage contract -- to marry as opposite sex couples do and bi-racial couples do.
"To claim that marriage, by definition, excludes certain couples is simply to insist that those couples may not marry because they have historically been denied the right to do so," the 10th Circuit majority wrote in the Utah case. "One might just as easily have argued that interracial couples are by definition excluded from the institution of marriage."
Posner, in the unanimous 7th Circuit case, said tradition cannot be grounds for discrimination no matter how long a practice has been in effect.
A marriage contract as a legal document (not a tradition in society or religion) has always been color and gender neutral
So legal dictionary's are irrelevant to law? That's a good one.
No surprise that you would suggest I leave, can't have facts and truth posted,now can we?
whatever your issues are they are not about entering into a rational and reasonable debate or argument.
you're a troll and a poor one at that
You are simply attempting to sidestep, because you have lost.
The legal definition of a marriage via every legal dictionary is a contract between a man and a woman, and the only way for same sex couples to enter into a marriage contract would be to change the definition.
You deny this, claiming that marriage has nothing to do with the sex of the couple according to the courts, yet legal definitions are what the courts refer to in any case concerning such.
You are crying and calling me a troll, because you have no case to defeat the facts that I have presented. I never addressed you first, you addressed me, and continue to do so, hence you would be the troll here. Stop whining and face the truth.