11-14-2008, 08:04 AM
I'm gonna copy and paste something I wrote on another site because I don't feel like coming up with fresh shit when this says how I feel:
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It's ALL about rights. The right to be treated equally under law, not have your tax dollars used to discriminate against you inappropriately, and the right to not be a second class citizen in effect, through Government, because of your gender/sexual orientation.
You don't have to have a specific right mentioned in the Constitution to be correct in saying that Italian Americans have a right to not be jailed or taxed more because they are Italian Americans, for example.
Let me put it to you this way, the fundamental reasons it goes against the principles of freedom and equality to deny licenses to couples because of their race, are the same basic reasons at work for couples that are homosexual.
Government already says it is wrong to unfairly discriminate against people due to race, religion, or sex. It's a pretty easy no-brainer that gays should get the same tax-funded acknowledgment, convenience, and benefit as heterosexual couples on principle.
The fact that people are either ignorant/disrespectful of those principles or have religious poisoning going on from the past doesn't change the validity of those principles applying to homosexuals.
I feel that despite the obvious differences, the basic underlying fight to remove the ban on interracial marriages rested upon the same basic principles - the ones that the anti-discrimination and civil rights laws sit upon.
Oh, and Howie: ::finger:: I don't expect your anti-freedom British ass to appreciate any of that.
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It's ALL about rights. The right to be treated equally under law, not have your tax dollars used to discriminate against you inappropriately, and the right to not be a second class citizen in effect, through Government, because of your gender/sexual orientation.
You don't have to have a specific right mentioned in the Constitution to be correct in saying that Italian Americans have a right to not be jailed or taxed more because they are Italian Americans, for example.
Let me put it to you this way, the fundamental reasons it goes against the principles of freedom and equality to deny licenses to couples because of their race, are the same basic reasons at work for couples that are homosexual.
Government already says it is wrong to unfairly discriminate against people due to race, religion, or sex. It's a pretty easy no-brainer that gays should get the same tax-funded acknowledgment, convenience, and benefit as heterosexual couples on principle.
The fact that people are either ignorant/disrespectful of those principles or have religious poisoning going on from the past doesn't change the validity of those principles applying to homosexuals.
I feel that despite the obvious differences, the basic underlying fight to remove the ban on interracial marriages rested upon the same basic principles - the ones that the anti-discrimination and civil rights laws sit upon.
Oh, and Howie: ::finger:: I don't expect your anti-freedom British ass to appreciate any of that.
