The right's dangerous legal argument
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The right's dangerous legal argument
| Thu, 03-05-2009 - 9:46pm |
Appearing for the supporters of Prop 8, Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater prosecutor, said the people hold the right to modify the state constitution by adding or subtracting protections for civil rights.
Court appears ready to uphold Prop. 8
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That NOW national board is elected by the membership, not hired.
>>Actually...as seems very clear in my comment...I was saying that civil unions would provide gays to the "equal access to civic institutions" that you said they wanted.<<
Except that civil unions don't provide equal access to civic institutions.
>>Probably the same crowd who realized that they can't come up with a reasonable argument to refute it. <<
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
All it would take if for same sex marriage to be legalized (as it is in MA and CT and was in CA) and then civil servents could perform same sex marriages and churches that wished to could perform legal same sex marriages (as it is currently in MA and CT and was in CA).
And yes, eventually the overturn of DOMA so that same sex couples who marry in one state have that marriage recognized in other states, as do straight couples.
Churches who did not wish to marry same sex couples could continue to not marry them, just as churches who don't wish to marry couples where one or both are divorced, or where one is a pregnant teenager, or where one is of a different faith can refuse to perform the marriage.
It doesn't take supportive churches getting the right to legally marry, it takes getting the marriage legal in the first place, the former comes from the latter.
Wow?
Sorry for taking so long to reply.
Everyone the right to marry
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Yes, not only do I believe we should have that right, we do have that right.
Full length fiction: worlds undone
"You have no power over my body..." ~ Anne Hutchinson
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