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To: Pyro7480

There can be no such thing as a “right” to marry. Marriage is an agreement. No one can guarantee ever finding another to enter into such an agreement. It cannot be a right.

The right to speech, kbr, religion, free press, petitition, etc., are all based in the individual and completely actionable by the individual.

My voice can speak. My hand can carry a gun. My soul can worship God.

My vow can marry without regard to anyone else? I don’t think so.


6 posted on 11/06/2008 9:32:23 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: xzins
There can be no such thing as a “right” to marry. Marriage is an agreement. No one can guarantee ever finding another to enter into such an agreement. It cannot be a right. The right to speech, kbr, religion, free press, petitition, etc., are all based in the individual and completely actionable by the individual.

That makes sense, but seems to fly in the face of the explicitly enumerated Constitutional right to peaceably assemble.

For what it's worth, I agree there's no right to marry, in the sense that the government has no business endorsing sexual relationships at all.

14 posted on 11/06/2008 9:41:57 AM PST by Sloth (What's the difference between taxation and armed robbery, aside from who's doing it?)
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