Quote:
Originally Posted by mused76
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.
|
Marriage is defined by the church, right? So goevernment shouldn't have anything to say about who can or cannot get married because it is a religious issue, right? What if i told you that there are at least a few denominations of mainstream christianity consider a gay marriage just as sacred as a straight one? Who's religious freedom is more worthy of constitutional protection?
Anyways, back to your main point. The majority spoke, but just between you and me and the internet, if the majority was amalgamated into a single person that person couldn't locate arizona on a map of the u.s.. Besides, the real majority made a brilliant use of negative space in its statement on election day. Roughly 40% of registered voters didn't vote at all. Bush only got about 30% of the eligible vote.