The right's dangerous legal argument

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The right's dangerous legal argument
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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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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 10:51pm

The logic is exactly the same as saying that putting a paleness test in place to become a public official is perfectly fair as long as both blacks and whites have the same test in place.

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:01pm

Ah, I did ask for a "simple" answer but I'd settle for a logical one.

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Registered: 03-12-2009
Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:01pm

I'm hoping to get a simple answer on this.

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:05pm

I'm hoping to get a simple answer on this.


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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:05pm

I did present a logical argument in the form of an analogy.

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:31pm

Sorry that my use of the word "were"

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:42pm

<< Popular opinion can also be on the right side of an issue...as it is with the issue of gay marriage.

>>> Slavery, genocide, segregation, all wrong sides. A big clue is if the majority opinion harms and oppresses others.

LOL! Why are liberals always so drastic? Give us a call when gays are being enslaved or exterminated or segregated.

>>> This does.

Only as much as the cat is oppressed because it wants to be called a dog...and yet it remains a cat. It's frustrated...but not oppressed.

<< As are churches who wish to perform polygamous marriages. But it isn't discrimination to preserve the meaning and intent of a social institution that is already available to all the people equally.

>>> Polygamy has sound legal reasons for not being sanctioned by society.

What are they?

>>> No such sound reasons exist on the matter of same sex marriage.

Just the ever so simple fact that these unions don't meet the minimum criteria to be called "marriage."

>>> This whole concept of religious belief used for ill purpose, I had something to say about that today:

Just another example of the left arrogantly dictating what the Church should believe and how it should behave.

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:49pm

>>No one is, and well... that is automatically discriminatory against those who are not attracted to opposite sex partners, like me.


We discriminate in everything we do.

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:54pm

>>I did present a logical argument in the form of an analogy.

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Tue, 03-31-2009 - 11:56pm
Sorry, but try as you may, you're not making strides trying to separate religion from marriage. They are inexorably intertwined. What's more, unless you can show that someone with the authority to alter social institutions has redefined marriage, gay unions simply don't meet the most basic criteria. You can call a cat a fish, but it will not swim.

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