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Originally Posted by filtherton
There is still a difference between telling people how to live, when it has no effect on anyone else's quality of life, and telling someone that they can't tell someone how to live. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the majority has the right to limit the rights of the minority.
There is a huge difference between murder and abortion. Namely, that the exact criteria for being "alive" are nebulous. Besides, murder is a legal word and currently abortion is legal, just like capital punishment.
On top of that, there is a huge difference between morals surrounding the ending of a life or potential life, and those surrounding two guys getting married. I believe in "live and let live", while many of those who shriek about the government limiting their freedoms, whether religious or second amendment, are more than gung ho when it comes to limiting another's freedoms in the bedroom.
There was a time when the "moral majority" believed in segregation, slavery, and manifest destiny.
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Nobody is limiting freedom in the bedroom but they are attempting to stop marriage between the same sex. Same sex marriages, in my *opinion*, are not justified and only show self-love due to the fact that gay marriages are based on falling in love for the same sex - the same being whether it male or female. Marriage is sacred and meant to be between a male and a female in my opinion and in the Catholic church's opinion. The purpose of marriage: love and pro-create. This is all besides the point.
My main point in beginning this thread was to state that the majority spoke out and won. This isn't just Bush or the "government" stopping rights. The government is made up of American citizens who voted on gay marriage bans this election and have voted on other issues in the past. And the majority, at whatever time it was, voted in presidents who were either for or against issues.
The minority does have rights. They have rights to protest, to leave the country, to get petitions, to lead marches to the state capitals, etc. They don't have these rights in many countries or just recently received them in areas such as Iraq. The minority has rights so please do not say they don't. Whether or not the majority agrees is another thing.