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To: Kickass Conservative
Is he now saying that ONE STATE can dictate to the other FORTYNINE STATES that they must support Gay Marriage as well? Does this also mean that States with Laws against Siblings and First Cousins Marrying will have those Laws overthrown as well? How about Polygamy amongst consenting Adults. Where exactly does this madness end?

Well, under our legal system, it is a States rights issue, it is up to the people of each State to decide. Myself I don't care what people do in private as log as they take responsibility for their actions and consequences thereof. I do understand the slippery slope here, I mean if you extend and redefine marriage at the desire of another group then how can you turn down others such as polygamists, people who want to marry animals, inanimate objects, themselves, etc. I can understand us losing a few states, some might get out of marriage entirely and so on, well, that is under our system in a legal sense. If you want to put a stop to this nationally and once and for all, we can do like the Serbians and Russians did where they amended their constitutions to define marriage as one man, one woman.

I just don't like it forced on us from the top and/or voted in to pacify them.

What I bemoan is the death of common knowledge and sense hoisted on the petard or political correctness. Back 20, 30, 40, 50 plus years ago, when you thin marriage, you think man and woman.

I have a couple of gay friends who consider themselves married. Deep down inside, if that's what they want to think, so be it, even if they want, draw up an agreement for a civil union, but don't force the marriage thing down our throats. If they want to change things, there is the process available although it is just as available to us to stop them. Again, we might end up having a mosiac of differing standards in each State so I guess we'd have to live in a State closest to our views.

Mark Davis on Rush made a good point where if this is accepted in all 50 States, then the differences between male and female will be nothing and we could see things like women getting drafted and so on.

I don't care what gays do as long as it is private, they have every right to pursue the American Dream too as they see fit but it should not be forced down our throats either. This is one barrel of monkeys that needed to remain closed.
75 posted on 05/14/2012 10:22:57 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Nowhere Man
Mark Davis on Rush made a good point where if this is accepted in all 50 States, then the differences between male and female will be nothing and we could see things like women getting drafted and so on.

Phyllis Schlafly always said the Equal Rights Amendment would have been a backdoor way to get same-sex marriage legalized. By declaring the genders equal, marriage would have to be redefined. And certainly the courts would interpret it that way. I would not be surprised to see them go back to something like that again to get same-sex marriage backdoored in if their "full frontal" approach fails.

93 posted on 05/15/2012 1:05:13 AM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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