Dante
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Reply 15 of 66 (Originally posted on: 07-12-04 08:50:59 PM)
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This whole situation is completely disgusting. Living in Massachusetts, this has been quite the hot topic. I too have written an editorial in my school newspaper on this issue.
As it stands right now, the current system of law is preventing a certain minority from having the same rights as the general populace. Besides being unfair, this goes completely against the founding fathers' intentions when they wrote the constitution.
From the point of the law, these people have to have the right to marry, if we want to continue to uphold the ideals of the Bill of Rights.
If your defending this amendment from a religious standpoint, obviously you forgot that there is no place for any religion in the constitution. Remember the seperation of church and state?
If your looking at this from a social point of view, and you believe that this will protect children from having "two mommies or daddies", your wrong. What makes you think a gay or lesbian couple wouldn't just be adopting anyways. Gay marriage would only protect these children's assets and security, and insure that they would go into the care of the other loving parent in the case of a death, instead of a foster home.
This amendment would be a travesty, but luckily I think that there isn't enough bipartisan support to get it through. That is, unless these lame Democrats buckle once again to public pressure.
I don't think Bush really gives a shit about gay marriage, but the GOP has found a topic where they can split Kerry/Edwards' opinion with the average American, and they are not about to let this go.
To add to ETH's directory:
U.S. Capital Switchboard - 202-224-3121
Sentator's Email - senate.gov
Rep's Email - house.gov
Snail Mail - Office of Senator/Representative [name], U.S. Senate/House of Reps., Washington, DC 20510/20515
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
-Denis Diderot
This reply was last edited on 07-12-04 09:12:26 PM by Dante.
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