XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: fmhlaw@comcast.net   
      
   On 9/24/2014 11:28 AM, deep wrote:   
   > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:15:11 -0600, Just Wondering   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 9/24/2014 11:00 AM, deep wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:12:30 -0700, "Wayne"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Assume that man A has the right to marry a woman, and man B has the right   
   to   
   >>>> marry a woman.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In what weird world of logic does that mean that man A has a right to   
   marry   
   >>>> man B?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> Because they are still people.   And the law says we have the   
   >>> responsibility to treat all people equally.   
   >>>   
   >> We already do.  All people have always had the right to marry.  Marriage   
   >> by definition is between a man and a woman.  There has never been a law   
   >> against a homosexual man or woman marrying.  Just like anyone else, if a   
   >> homosexual man wants to marry, he has to find a woman to do it with.   
   >> And if a homosexual woman wants to marry, she has to find a man to do it   
   >> with.  There of any number of examples of homosexuals marrying that way.   
   >>   Similarly, a heterosexual man has never had a right to "marry" another   
   >> man, and a heterosexual woman has never had a right to "marry" another   
   >> woman.  By definition, a man-man relationship, and a woman-woman   
   >> relationship, is not marriage.   
   >   
   > No it's not.   You're wrong.   The 14th amendment says all people have   
   > equal rights under the law.   You have no right to decide what the   
   > conditions are for someone else to marry.   
   >   
   States have the right, 10th Amendment, to enact laws regulating   
   state-sanctioned marriages.  If a state has " no right to decide what the   
    > conditions are for someone else to marry," then all laws against   
   bigamous, underage and incestuous marriages are also unconstitutional.   
      
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