Posted on 07/14/2004 1:42:44 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Yes, unless you can get those black robed people to quit legislating from the benches.
Let the amendment stand or fall on the weight of support of the people.
We are supposed to have a government by "The Consent of the Governed". The amendment process is one that allows the governed to have a voice.
Vote on it, up or down, but let the people decide.
We don't need either the tyrany of the judicial or leftist elitism preventing the people from speaking.
By defining marriage as between a man and a woman, no one is discriminated against.
Homosexuals could still get married to a person of the opposite sex just like everyone else could.
Everyone would be treated equally under the law.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - An excellently reasoned argument in favor of the Constitutional Amendment to protect marriage. The writer is too negative, though. He starts off by stating that same sex marriage will happen, which I don't buy. I think it can be stopped. If it isn't, then the future is very, very dark.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
Please read my position over [here].
FReegards--
NO. Sanctity refers to things that are sacred and things that are sacred are about individual faith, religious tradition and practice. NONE of these is the domain of government.
Look at how it is today: You have civil ceremonies. You have church weddings. You have no-fault divorce and states where that isn't possible. You have community property states and those which are not. You have weddings between minors or not depending on the state. You have divorce, the secular dividing up of assets, legal custody and so forth but some religions have their own dissolution procedures. Catholics, for example. Orthodox Jews, I think, for another. More examples of the distinction between *sacred rights* and *legal rights*.
This duality has served us well. We're a free people, with freedom of religious practice, we claim to value the rights of states first before federal interference.
The only thing going on here is fundamentalist religious furvor compelling a vocal minority to toss aside over 200 years of precedent, national convention, and American secular values to serve and sooth everything from well-meaning paranoia to bigotry wrapped in alleged divine cloth.
Oh, please! How many unborn children will Lawrence vs. Texas cause to be legally murdered? Roe vs. Wade is in a completely *different* and barbaric category.
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