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To: Responsibility2nd

It looks like I really did lose you.

A positive right is a right that imposes an obligation on someone else. For instance, if there is a right to health care it means that someone else is obligated to provide you health care.

I believe that gay marriage is a positive right because it would obligate others (for instance, employers who offer spousal benefits) to recognize the union as a marriage.

I think maybe I didn’t make it clear that I don’t believe in positive rights. When I say that gay marriage is a positive right, that means I’m against it.

I think we’re on the same side of this issue.


65 posted on 04/13/2010 6:09:23 PM PDT by murdoog ("Aim high. Shoot straight. Praise the Lord. Audit the FED." Gary North)
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To: murdoog

~sigh~

Once again I jumped to wrong conclusions.

Very sorry.


67 posted on 04/13/2010 7:02:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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