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My biggest question on the matter: Why is government involved with this sort of thing at all? Why is government involved in marriage to begin with?
If a gay couple head down to the Catholic Church and ask the priest to marry them, the priest will tell them, "No." So they head to the Methodist Church and the minister there says, "Yes" and marries them. Pretty simple stuff there. Why does the government need to get involved in that?
The government is NOT getting involved in that.
Catholic churches can still say no and Methodists churches can still say yes - religious freedom.
But the state must not discriminate when it comes to hetero and homosexual marriages. There is a difference between legal marriage and religious marriage.
Why doesn't that apply to college "safe spaces" and dorms? Why are some POC only? Why are POCs now demanding separate but equal, setting Civil Rights back 50 years and losing all the gains that have been made?
The truly sad part of all of this is that the cruel identity politics game liberals, Dems, and the DNC play has set all the gains made after the Civil Rights movement back 50 years.
I'll be honest. I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't know why you are comparing the right to marry with safe spaces and I have no idea what you mean by "identity politics game."
Wants the government to keep its big nose out of our intimate sexual relationships unless, in the state's opinion, one couple's sexual relationship is sufficiently like another couple's that an association, wanted or not, should be created between the two by legally changing the meaning of a word while overturning the expressed will of the people with respect to the word's permissible use as well as centuries of religious precedent, and this, with no affirmative constitutional authority to do so.
Other than that, the state needs to stay out of our bedrooms.
LMAO How could you say that is leftist? It is the rightists (not all) that want to tell people what to do in their personal lives.
Marriage is a contractual relationship and as such should not be restricted in the United States by religious doctrine. If two consenting adults want to enter into a marriage contract it is none of my business.
On the campaign trail Donald Trump said he wants to appoint Supreme Court justices that will overturn it. It can't happen overnight because there are still 5 justices who voted for it. Besides the Supreme Court has a long history of not reversing their own rulings for many years ... they do not like revisiting the same case.
I'm not a lawyer, but if marriage equality is overturned I wonder if the same-sex couples who are now legally married will see their marriages nullified? Or will their marriages be "grandfathered" in?
Some want business to put a sign who they don't serve. Some feel this is still too much oversight by Government, but I think it's better for a business to be transparent.
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