To: conservative blonde
The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior. The attempt to change/outlaw one form of personal behavior was thumpingly reversed in a little more than a decade. Why do you want to change the focus of the Constitution?
To: linda_22003
The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior.
Except that gay marriage is not about personal behavior. Gays can still have sex with each other without a gay marriage amendment. Gay marriage is about requiring the public to recognize gay unions to be just as legitimate as heterosexual unions.
162 posted on
06/05/2006 2:24:25 PM PDT by
murdoog
To: linda_22003
It is very much about government behavior when judges take it upon themselves to reverse the will of the people.
To: linda_22003
The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior. The attempt to change/outlaw one form of personal behavior was thumpingly reversed in a little more than a decade. Why do you want to change the focus of the Constitution?
The Constitution is our social contract--the agreed upon rules under which our society operates. The only ones changing anything are those groups which use the courts to ram through society-changing novelties, like homosexual marriage, without regard for what society actually wants.
The Marriage Protection Amendment simply sets limits on what we, as a society, are willing to recognize as a legitimate marriage. No homo-marriage. No-polygamous marriage. No incestuous marriage. Period. Ten years ago, the need for such an amendment would have been thought silly. Today, in the aftermath of judicially-mandated fake marriages, the need is obvious and pressing.
When the Federal Marriage Amendment passes--perhaps not this session, but the constant irritation of the homo-normalization lobby ensures that it WILL pass--it will never be overturned.
290 posted on
06/06/2006 7:27:17 AM PDT by
Antoninus
(Ginty for US Senate -- NJ's primary day is June 6 -- www.gintyforsenate.org)
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