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The debate over whether to allow gay marriage in New York erupted in the streets of the city in raucous, dueling protests.
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The idea of "equality" for marriage is absurd. Marriage is completely about giving special benefits to a man and a woman in mutual commitment. Equal rights pertain to live-and-let-live kinds of things, such as speech, worship and assembly, not to special privileges which have a beneficent social purpose that cannot be fulfilled by mutually committed homosexuals.
Your opinion, which you offer on any post having to do with LGBT issues, is that the government shouldn't extend marriage rights to homosexual couples because, in your view, children need a mother and a father for their own well-being. The problem with this assertion is that the civil institution of marriage is not the consent of the government for couples to procreate. Indeed such consent isn't necessary in order to start a family. Civil marriage is an institution that allows for joint filing of federal taxes and provides certain privileges like hospital visitation rights. Homosexual couples, and heterosexual ones for that matter, don't need a marriage license to have children. Homosexual couples have been raising families for decades now. If you truly cared about the well-being of the children who are raised by these couples, you would surely advocate for marriage rights which do nothing but stabilize families. Outlawing same-sex marriage will not stop gay couples from cohabiting or raising children, allowing same-sex marriage will only help to strengthen those families.
Pass the Uniting American Families Act!
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Same sex marriage has a constitutional basis under the Equal Protection Clause.
It gained a constitutional basis as long as the state began to recognise opposite-sex marriage.
This is a fact and is undeniable.
It doesn't matter how loud opponents may shout.
Always the case with arguable issues these days, it is all a challenge to see who yells the loudest. Making the most noise does not make anyone "RIGHT!" but it sure does showcase the holes in their argument. What is truly scary, though, is the hatred on display from both sides -- hating your opposite side of an argument makes a deaf ear turn and only hear part of the issue at hand. There is always common ground, but those taking to the streets have taken reason and sense out of the equation most of the time.
That is why the founding fathers wrote protection for the minority into the constitution. It shouldn't matter how much hate is spewed, we are all Americans and we all deserve equal protection under the law.
Well people have every right to protest on city streets. Some of them hold up signs with slogans showing reason and pleas for tolerance, others hold up placards with rude, insulting and inflammatory language. They all have every right to do so. They have the right to go home and write letters and post to blogs. It is all part of the freedom of speech Americans hold dear. I would not change that for anything.
I think in Massachusetts the protests for and against same sex marriage helped the legislature to finally quash the attempt to place a ban on same sex marriage into our constitution. The unreasonableness of the anti-gay advocates torpedoed their own position while the lawmakers became more sympathetic to the calls for fairness and equality from pro-gay demonstrators and lobbying.
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First Posted: 05-18-09 10:03 AM | Updated: 05-18-09 10:17 AM