“Same sex marriage is a newly-coined right that has never existed in all of human history.”
And I bet everything I own that this was not what the Founders of this country had in mind when they wrote the Constitution.
The quotation is not strictly accurate, The Roman Caesar Nero, "married" a castratie by taking the role of the husband in one of his unions and in a later "marriage" took the effeminate role. Roman society in his day also had child prostitution, open incest, bestiality, gladiator contests, entertainment consisting of watching people being burned or tortured to dead or killed and eaten by animals etc. Christians and Jews were especially the objects of this barbarism.
Self indulgent depravity is not compassion.
I suspect the founding fathers, who were well versed in classical history, if they had this in mind at all, wrote the constitution with a view to preventing it, as you point out.
Given that Founders all believed homosexuality was a serious crime, you'd be right.
No, sir. It was what the Marxist had in mind when they set out to destroy it.
I object to the use of the term “marriage” —> what was wrong with letting them have civil unions?
“And I bet everything I own that this was not what the Founders of this country had in mind when they wrote the Constitution.”
It would not have even occurred to them. It would have been considered an absurd joke if anyone had brought it up. In a sense, gay rights activists are playing a semantic game. Because the definition of marriage was not spelled out in the Constitution, the activists feel free to manufacture a right for themselves.