What Should the Government Do About Gay Marriage?
ABC News U.S.
2013/01/17 18:00:00
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The Supreme Court will hear two major gay rights cases this spring. One deals with a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. It denies federal benefits to same sex couples who are legally married in their state. President Obama believes the law is unconstitutional, and his Justice Department has refused to defend it in Court.
But the Justice Department has not yet weighed in on the second case before the Supreme Court: a challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage. That case asks a much broader question: is there a fundamental right to gay marriage? While the Supreme Court could decide the case without reaching that constitutional question, court watchers wonder if the Obama administration will weigh in on that case.
But the Justice Department has not yet weighed in on the second case before the Supreme Court: a challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage. That case asks a much broader question: is there a fundamental right to gay marriage? While the Supreme Court could decide the case without reaching that constitutional question, court watchers wonder if the Obama administration will weigh in on that case.
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Change marriage in the eyes of the law to civil unions, and keep marriage as a religious union. This negates the whole religious debate, which shouldn't even be because of, you know, separation of church and state.
Everyone that is married is now considered to be in a civil union and has all of the rights afforded by the federal and state governments. If the couple is religious, then they can have a marriage, which offers NO federal or state rights or benefits, but is more for their religious peace of mind.
Problem solved. Now DO it!!!
With that said here's an idea. Keep marriage as a religious union, one where you can go to your church to become married, and change marriage in the law to be called civil unions. That way you can keep marriage as the religious institute that you want, and we can all have civil unions that would afford the same federal and state benefits to everyone, thereby keeping all men, and women, created, equal.
You don't have to give it to them, they have it by way of the constitution and bill of rights already, it's just a matter of recognizing that fact. (part of our Fundamental Rights, not to mention, 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness')
How would you feel if you were told you couldn't marry the person (read 'consenting adult') you loved?
If you don't like Gay Marriage, fine, don't have one, but you don't have a right to stop them from perusing their happiness, what they are doing harms no one and they do, in fact, have that right. Just like you have a right to marry who you want to (assuming they are a consenting adult and they do so consent) and pursue your happiness, as long as it doesn't harm others. What they do, in the (Right to) Privacy of their homes, is their business, not yours. Just like I don't have a right to tell you how to live your sex life and how you should pursue it, or not...
You have a right to practice your religious views, but you DO NOT have the right to push those views onto other people, and you especially do not have the right to get laws passed based on those religious views (separation of church and state).
Maybe if more people married for love instead of some demented form of duty then more of them would be happy marriages that last and almost half of them wouldn't end in divorce!
If you vote for someone who will 'uphold the constitution' then they will have to vote for gay rights, because discrimination is anti-constitutional.
You say Gay Marriage harms children, well I say your bigotry and your religion do more harm to children than anyone's marriage. Discouraging thinking, promoting bigotry and fear, and denying science (not to mention all of the people who are harmed every day by religions since they have been conceived) do far more harm than what two people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. There is absolutely NO proof that gay marriage harms anyone or anything. Yet more people have died in the name of religion than just about anything else.
Did you know that the Christian Church used to have a gay marriage ce...
Maybe if more people married for love instead of some demented form of duty then more of them would be happy marriages that last and almost half of them wouldn't end in divorce!
If you vote for someone who will 'uphold the constitution' then they will have to vote for gay rights, because discrimination is anti-constitutional.
You say Gay Marriage harms children, well I say your bigotry and your religion do more harm to children than anyone's marriage. Discouraging thinking, promoting bigotry and fear, and denying science (not to mention all of the people who are harmed every day by religions since they have been conceived) do far more harm than what two people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. There is absolutely NO proof that gay marriage harms anyone or anything. Yet more people have died in the name of religion than just about anything else.
Did you know that the Christian Church used to have a gay marriage ceremony? That's a Fact. There are ancient records of it all over Europe.
You know what else is an 'abomination unto the lord' according to that same old testament passage? Eating Shellfish and Shaving! You gonna vote for people to outlaw those too? I am sure the good people at Red Lobster and Bic might have something to say about that...
The Bible also tells you to live and let live, turn the other cheek, that sort of thing, you know, love thy neighbor. Part of that includes wanting them to be happy and not condemning their way of life. The Dead Sea Scrolls tell you to avoid the pagans, not to have anything to do with them, which would also include not forcing your lifestyle onto them.
Bigotry is an ugly thing and it harms us all.