XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: ingilt@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:15:55 -0700, Wayne wrote:   
      
   > "Alex W."  wrote in message   
   > news:ruqe8dprgww9$.1wsec1xpe3p6v.dlg@40tude.net...   
   >   
   > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:41:58 -0700, Wayne wrote:   
   >   
   >> "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.   
   >   
   > # Arrant rubbish, codswallop and tommyrot.   
   >   
   > # If same-sex marriage were an attack on religion, we'd see   
   > # them picketing churches and demonstrating outside mosques   
   > # and temples.  They'd be suing in ecclesiastical courts, not   
   > # secular courts.   
   >   
   > # Same sex marriage is about legal stuff, not religious stuff.   
   > # It is about having equal access to all the benefits and   
   > # perks that hetero couples enjoy.  There is nothing religious   
   > # about getting a surviving spouse's pension, or visitation   
   > # rights when a spouse is in hospital, or getting the same tax   
   > # breaks.   
   >   
   > No it's not.  Otherwise a simple law would have sufficed.  That law would   
   > say: legal unions shall have the same legal standing as marriages.   
   >   
   > Legal unions are NOT acceptable to same sex couples, even if the legal   
   > aspects are identical.   
      
   That's because those legal unions as proposed were never   
   fully equal to the secular marriage.   
      
   Civil unions are only deemed valid in the state where they   
   were entered into.  So if Jane and Marylin get hitched in   
   Vermont but Jane has a skiing accident in Colorado, Marylin   
   has *no rights* because she is not recognised as a next of   
   kin.  Nor are such unions recognised for federal tax   
   purposes: Jane and Marylin could not file a joint tax   
   return, nor are they eligible for any married-couple tax   
   breaks.  If Jane dies, Marylin would have no rights to   
   decide how to bury her, nor would she inherit if Jane was   
   stupid enough not to make a will.  The list of differences   
   is quite exhausting; do you really want me to go through it   
   all?   
      
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