XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns
XPost: alt.survival
From: lunch@nofreelunch.us
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:49:47 -0700, "Wayne"
wrote:
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>"Free Lunch" wrote in message
>news:0hae2at8uv78jibt17qgbsd9sd3n8e3hlv@4ax.com...
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>On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:41:58 -0700, "Wayne"
>wrote:
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>>"Alex W." wrote in message news:c8nahmFnvqkU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>On 27/09/2014 10:16, Just Wondering wrote:
>>> On 9/26/2014 10:27 PM, WangoTango wrote:
>>>> In article <54234070$0$1917$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net>,
>>>> fmhlaw@comcast.net says...
>>>>> On 9/24/2014 3:59 PM, WangoTango wrote:
>>>>>> In article , mygarbagecan@verizon.net
>>>>>> says...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "David J. Hughes" wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:HdzUv.240259$JH1.29846@fx08.iad...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9/23/2014 12:57 PM, BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 9/23/2014 11:27 AM, Lee wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> La. state judge: Gay marriage ban unconstitutional
>>>>>>>>> Sept 22 2014
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage is
>>>>>>>>> unconstitutional, in part because it
>>>>>>>>> violates equal protection rights, a state
>>>>>>>>> judge ruled Monday.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Protection of what right?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # Fourteenth Amendment, section one
>>>>>>> # "1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
>>>>>>> subject to
>>>>>>> # the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and
>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>> # State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law
>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>> # shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
>>>>>>> United
>>>>>>> # States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
>>>>>>> # property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person
>>>>>>> within its
>>>>>>> # jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # Contract laws, of which marriage laws are a subset, should not
>>>>>>> # discriminate on anything other than the ability to consent or
>>>>>>> enter into
>>>>>>> # a valid contract.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nice cite. Too bad it isn't relevant except in the strange minds of
>>>>>>> proggies.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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 there is nothing stopping them from any other type of
>>>>>> contractual agreement, duh.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sure there is. Many types of contracts are void on public policy
>>>>> grounds.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, you got a hair splitter for Christmas, how nice.
>>>> How about they are afforded equal protection under the law.
>>>>
>>> They already are. They always have been. A person's right to marry is
>>> not affected by sexual orientation. A man can marry a woman, and a
>>> woman marry a man, regardless of whether either or both of them is
>>> heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or any other ___sexual you care to
>>> name.
>>>
>>
>># To restrict a person's rights by virtue of their anatomy is as primitive
>># and indefensible as restricting their rights by virtue of their religion
>># or skin colour.
>>
>>Funny you mention religion. You know damned well that same sex "marriage"
>>is a direct attack on religious beliefs.
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># Any religious belief that justifies bigotry comes from a religion that
># isn't worth following.
>
>But, aren't you one of those "get religion out of government" types?
>It works both ways. Government should get the hell out of religion and
>record civil unions, not marriages.
Religions do not own marriage. If your religion doesn't like what the
government calls marriage, they can invent a new name for their
religious ceremony. The religions that are defending their personal
bigotry aren't worthy of any respect.
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