Hello Hangdawg13
hangdawg13 writes:
The minority should either quit or cope, but not dilute this smallest kernal of government by eliminating consensus and demanding complete compromise.
Why did our fore-fathers write the Constitution? What was their justification...their raison d'tre for writing such a document? It's quite simple, but very important. It was to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. That's it. To prevent one "group" from deciding for everybody what is right and wrong in regards to ones own personal beliefs. That's why they felt it important to write our Constitution, and why it includes things like the 14th amendment.
It’s really quite simple. You may have what you feel are justifiable reasons to want to ban gay marriage and theses reasons may be deeply rooted in your religious convictions. Fine. Additionally, you can (and I suppose "should") do whatever your religious beliefs tell you to do to "help" these people out. That is, you can do whatever you want...except use you religious views to change our Constitution.
We are a nation founded on the principle that the majority absolutely do not have the right to impart their wants and views on those that are in the minority. Period. If you really believe in our Constitution, then even though you do not accept gay marriage, you still have the responsibility to say "no" to a change in our Constitution that is, flat out, nothing but discrimination.
To get around the religious objections, I have heard a few people make comment about how gays "only want to get married so they can get the tax breaks". To those people I ask: Do you have some data to back up such a ridiculous claim? Also, by that argument, there are probably millions of heterosexuals that should not have been allowed to marry either. What about heterosexuals that were not married in any sort of religious setting? What about heterosexuals that are married but do not plan on having any children? Should they be banned too?
Do you understand? Do you agree? You have to agree. Remember, I'm not saying you have to agree with homosexuality. You can, for whatever reason(s) you want, believe that two people of the same sex should not marry. That's all fine and dandy. But in this Country, you do not now, nor should you ever have the right to ban gay marriage by using the very document that protects such behavior. Of course, if you want to live in a Country in which moral behaviors are dictated to you by one religious sect, then fine, move to Iraq, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia. I, for one, like the idea of keeping religion out of our Political policies and agendas.
hangdawg13 writes:
If gay people want their adopted kids to be taught the glory of gayness in school then let them form a community where they can get enough votes to insert this teaching into the curricula and I will gladly support their right to free speech.
Personally, I don't want either of these ideas taught in my public schools. I would much rather see a real, comprehensive curricula dealing with sex education (not the nonsensical crappola put out by the Bush administration) and tolerance.
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