Civil Rights are not the same thing as Same Sex Marriage (money, states)
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This thread isn't about religious discrimination.
This thread is about the fact that civil rights are not the same thing as same sex marriage. In dictionaries, one of the definitions of civil rights pertains to African Americans gaining equal rights. One is born with a particular ethnicity and set of genes. One is NOT born with sexual deviating preferences.
Religious discrimination is partly why so many pilgrams wanted to rough it out in the boondox and start a new country - far from their homelands... so they could have religious freedom. They didn't come here so they could legally require society to honor their sexual deviations.
This thread isn't about religious discrimination.
This thread is about the fact that civil rights are not the same thing as same sex marriage. In dictionaries, one of the definitions of civil rights pertains to African Americans gaining equal rights. One is born with a particular ethnicity and set of genes. One is NOT born with sexual deviating preferences.
Religious discrimination is partly why so many pilgrams wanted to rough it out in the boondox and start a new country - far from their homelands... so they could have religious freedom. They didn't come here so they could legally require society to honor their sexual deviations.
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The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination.
adj. or civ·il-rights (sĭv'əl-rīts')
Of or relating to such rights or privileges: civil rights legislation.
Of or relating to a political movement, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, devoted to securing equal opportunity and treatment for members of minority groups.
: the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially: the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress
Religious discrimination is partly why so many pilgrams wanted to rough it out in the boondox and start a new country - far from their homelands... so they could have religious freedom. They didn't come here so they could legally require society to honor their sexual deviations.
Most Americans are living in the year 2012, not 1712.
civil rights = equal rights
All men/woman have the same rights..
A gay man can marry a woman, can't marry a man
a straight man can marry a woman, can't marry a man.
same right = equal rights.
Gay men/women are NOT denied any rights that straight men/women have..
I personally do NOT oppose same sex marriage, I simply oppose the comparison to equal rights.. apples do not equal oranges.
A similiar argument was used by racists who disagreed with interracial marriage prior to 1967. It was dumb then and it's even dumber after more than 50 years.
Marriage, regardless of fertility, is based on nature's design for sexual reproduction and is instrumental in making sexual relationships between men and women stable and therefore beneficial to society and the children married couples create.
If we reproduced asexually, there would be no need for marriage as each person would create offspring without involving another person or persons, and no practical distinction would need to be made between those who formed lifelong bonds and those who did not.
Since homosexuals form bonds but do not reproduce, they don't need to have their relationships defined by marriage since fruitless homosexual unions are of no consequence to society or children.
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Originally Posted by DentalFloss
Not anymore, even assuming it was once thus. The old ways are done. Good riddance.
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Originally Posted by momonkey
Well you just be sure to let us know when homosexual couples start creating children.
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Originally Posted by DentalFloss
I am male. My wife is female. We have no children, by choice. Our marriage is no less valid.
No one said it wasn't.
I said marriage was based on nature's design for sexual reproduction.
As you claim you are male and your wife female, your marriage is in harmony with nature's design whether you have kids or not.
A same-sex marriage would not be in harmony with nature's design.
Obviously, marriage is not a civil right.
Only those brainwashed by homosexual trends would try to pretend it is.
The people of this country and entire world exist through male/female unions, so lawmakers saw need to protect such unions from which all society comes. Still, not all couples get married, again because marriage is not a fundamental right.
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