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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
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As a taxpayer you have the right to express who you wish to favour...
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A taxpayer can generally express who they wish to favor (unless it has to do with employment, housing, providing service, and other basic rights), but in America they can't actually favor who they wish based on conditions like gender, race, religion, handicap, without facing the penalty of law. Go read the text of the Civil Rights Act I posted in this topic.[/QUOTE]So a person can't stipulate who benefits from their will? Last I checked they could. Last I checked they could also VOTE for the candidate that will do the most preferable things with the taxpayers money.
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Of course one can always deny the gay issue has anything to do with civil rights. This viewpoint in turn ignores the guidelines and laws of the Federal government and many juridstictions that gaurantee equal rights regardless of a persons legal adult consentual romantic sexual orientation.
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There is equality. Any man can marry any woman, regardless of sexual orientation, religion, race or handicap.
Marriage is not love. Love and marriage are two totally different things.
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*Prophetic SOAPBOX*
One day, barring the slim chance of a federal Constitutional Amendment, the Gay marriage issue will land in the SCOTUS and based on precedents the SCOTUS will probably strike down the MO amendment and all similiar laws. When this day inevitably arrives opponents of Gay marriage will be stuck merely expressing who they wish to favor while Gays across the land will enjoy the equal rights to marry and care for children that they earn and deserve as taxpaying citizens.
*/SOAPBOX*
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What the SCOTUS does is interpret the will of the people as reflected in the constitution and the laws. The will of the people Chewbacca. If Americans do not wish to give same sex couples the same encouragement as heterosexual couples, then it will not happen. Laws will change. Constitutions will change.
At the end of the day, a same sex couple is DISADVANTAGED as they can never have children naturally, no matter what law or SCOTUS declaration is made. There is INEQUALITY. Nature has deemed it so. No ranting and raving and getting "equal rights" removes that very simple fact. They do not EARN the right to raise children, they are GIVEN children from OTHERS. Heterosexual couples EARN children. (Namely the mother during her pain in labour.) They conceive, grow and birth them.