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To: don-o

If all mankind is equal under God and our laws justly affirm such, then how is that anyone can be denied a union or marriage under laws that are unequally applied?

Thought question.

Not condoning so called “gay marriage”.


12 posted on 08/29/2013 1:53:35 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome
how is that anyone can be denied a union or marriage under laws that are unequally applied?

Natural law.

Although natural law is often conflated with common law, the two are distinct in that natural law is a view that certain rights or values are inherent in or universally cognizable by virtue of human reason or human nature, while common law is the legal tradition whereby certain rights or values are legally cognizable by virtue of judicial recognition or articulation.[4] Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law,[5][full citation needed] and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel. Because of the intersection between natural law and natural rights, it has been cited as a component in the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law

13 posted on 08/29/2013 2:01:05 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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