Re: Same Sex Marriage
Reply #172 –
I wonder from where comes the money that keeps on running all the current pro homosexual propaganda and the attack against Family that we are assisting at the western world.
The same primitive us versus them mentality as American Republicans. Nobody is attacking the family. If anything the LGBT is affirming the family and marriage by seeking to form them.
Only very naive people thinks that this has anything to do with rights or that it appeared from spontaneous way.
[/quote] In America it's assumed you have rights by default, as long as you're not harming others. All the constitution does in this regard is prevent the government from taking them away. The Federal constitution has what's referred to as the "Supremacy Clause" to ensure the states and lower levels of government don't violate the rights codified and affirmed in the constitution.
From the Declaration of Independence, this concept was made clear. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " Yes, it's self-event that the government doesn't actually grant rights, but it can protect them via a constitution. The flip side and would-be dictators can try to take them away. What happened in the case of same-sex marriage, of course, is that various states were found to be in violation of the "equal protection clause" of the Federal constitution. To understand why, you'd need to read up on the legalities of marriage in the United States and I remind you it's not a strictly religious institution and gibberish about any couple's ability to reproduce never factored into it.
there's politicians and there's endless resources to keep everything in practice.
The politicians and resources behind the state constitutional amendments to prevent same-sex couples from getting married greatly exceeded those of the opposite side. You must know, this right? Millions of dollars flowed from Mormon Utah to California to get their amendment passed, Again, though, it was self-evident that everyone gets equal protection under the law and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.