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Are you kidding? We're talking about Texas. There are no DPs or civil unions here.
Texas - a state that requires students in sex-education classes be taught that homosexuality is "lifestyle", is an "unacceptable" lifestyle, and is illegal.
Texas, which in the 2000s still arrested and prosecuted gay people for having sex with other gay people in the privacy of their own homes - and only stopped when ordered to by the US Supreme Court in 2003. Gay sex still remains illegal under Texas law, even if the law is now unenforceable.
Texas, a state that not only bans gay people from civil marriage law, but also bans the conferring of any legal rights to gay couples under any heading - be it marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, etc.
Texas, a state where a Christian boss can fire a gay employee simply for being gay, but where it's illegal for a gay boss to fire a Christian employee simply for being Christian.
Texas - a state that requires students in sex-education classes be taught that homosexuality is "lifestyle", is an "unacceptable" lifestyle, and is illegal.
Texas, which in the 2000s still arrested and prosecuted gay people for having sex with other gay people in the privacy of their own homes - and only stopped when ordered to by the US Supreme Court in 2003. Gay sex still remains illegal under Texas law, even if the law is now unenforceable.
Texas, a state that not only bans gay people from civil marriage law, but also bans the conferring of any legal rights to gay couples under any heading - be it marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, etc.
Texas, a state where a Christian boss can fire a gay employee simply for being gay, but where it's illegal for a gay boss to fire a Christian employee simply for being Christian.
Marriage confers concrete legal privileges in regards to taxation, estate protection, spousal privilege in regards to testifying, and myriad other instances.
It can soundly be argued laws preventing people entering into the marriage contract deprive them of those protections above.
So it is not a right....
One doesn't need to ask for their rights.
It my have been a right long ago, but the day government took it over, it became a privilege you must ask for.
Until an amendment to the constitution specifically addressing marriage, the 10th amendment takes over.
Personally I find the entire homosexual thing a disgusting perversion. Makes me want to vomit and for that I guess I am a bigot?
No. "Bigotry" requires allowing your personal feelings about homosexuality to affect the way you conduct yourself toward homosexuals in public. Incidentally, for completeness: "Hatred" requires parlaying your bigotry into deliberate action against homosexuals.
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Originally Posted by hammertime33
The 14th Amendment doesn't protect rights because you have to ask for permission? What???????
In the reactionary mind, no one's rights are ever violated. It is part of a more generalized pattern of vacuous denial that fosters right-wing institutionalized bigotry.
Article 1 defines that everyone no matter what, is allowed the qualifications the Bill of Rights guarantees.
The Bill of Rights says nothing about Marriage. Contract Marriage is something created by government and men, to control others.
A sacred marriage is between you your lifemate and your god. You don't need a license or a preacher you just need each other.
There are many laws that prevent your and my happiness.
Article 1 defines that everyone no matter what, is allowed the qualifications the Bill of Rights guarantees.
The Bill of Rights says nothing about Marriage. Contract Marriage is something created by government and men, to control others.
And as long as the Government (state or federal) provides Contract Marriage to hetero couples and denies same-sex unions, it is violating the 14th amendment. The right being violated is equal treatment under the law, a precedent set in Loving v. Virginia.
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Originally Posted by BentBow
A sacred marriage is between you your lifemate and your god. You don't need a license or a preacher you just need each other.
There are many laws that prevent your and my happiness.
So we agree that homosexual sacred marriage already exists, as quite a few faiths and denominations do sanction same-sex marriages. So if it isn't a religious issue, why deny equal treament under the law regarding civil marriages? Seems that you would be for it, not against...
-NoCapo
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