Btw- moveon, the radical leftist group, says that by opposing gay marriage and trying to demand the courts NOT legislate from the bench, he is "using the politics of hate" and that a ban on gay marriage is taking away rights. Again, for the slow ones- you cannot take away rights that do not, and never have, existed. It's an obvious distortion by moveon to push their liberal agenda on the country. Also- as I mention elsewhere...gays have equal rights to marry. Marry one person of the opposite sex. Gays need to admit it- they don't want equal rights, they want special rights.
Don't buy into the rhetoric...this is not about civil rights or equal rights- it's for special rights that are not afforded any American, nor were they ever intended, not in the US, not in any country since marriage was created thousands of years ago. No tiny group can change the very deifinition of a sacred institution that is the basis for our society. That's not the "fairness" these groups speak of. That's unfair- it's like a slap in the face to all Americans.
Posted by Josh at July 13, 2004 04:50 AM | TrackBack"Gays need to admit it- they don't want equal rights, they want special rights"
-Straight people have the right to marry the person they love. If gay marriage is banned, gay people will not have that same right. That's what is meant by "equal rights". The equal right to marry the man or woman you love.
"No tiny group can change the very deifinition of a sacred institution that is the basis for our society"
- This is simply not true. The civil rights movement helped change several "sacred" institutions which included education, the electoral system and yes, even marriage. As you've been told, the "defininiton of marriage" once excluded white people from marrying black people. Because of a small group of people (relative to the ammount of Americans as a whole)that definition was changed.
Posted by: lowdown at July 13, 2004 11:58 AM