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Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage
The U.S. Supreme Court issued Friday a landmark decision, ruling that marriage is a Constitutionally protected right to homosexual as well as heterosexual couples. The New York Times notes that last year, by refusing to hear appeals to decisions favoring same-sex marriage in five states, the court "delivered a tacit victory for gay rights, immediately expanding the number of states with same-sex marriage to 24, along with the District of Columbia, up from 19." (In the time since, several more states have expanded marriage to include gay couples.) Reuters expains a bit of the legal and political history of the movement which led to today's decision, and points out some of the countries around the world which have made similar moves already.
Seriously off topic...
dynasty has to live on, so if my firstborn (or theirs) is gay, they need to be abled to adopt somebody to pass over the frosty throne!
Just wait until after the next presidential election. The Dems are going to run the table because the Republicans will be forced into archaic positions on nearly everything. It's going to be a rout.
That is what this country desperately needs, for people and the government to step out of the 1950's into the 21st century together for a change, rather than trying to "Take back America". We all saw how well that worked with the Bush administration and the dysfunctional Congress during the Obama Administration. Republicans are like spoiled children.
Nowhere does it say "as defined by a bigoted interpretation of a specific god".
It sure as fuck doesn't say "unalienable rights except as overruled by a ratified vote".
And yet the "three great religions" practiced by the vast majority of the people who inhabit your biosphere have for their entire collective history said that this same creator says that such a marriage is not a marriage.
Where do rights come from again? If you do not subscribe to any sort of God (and it sounds like you may not), then you have to say that rights are a social construct made up by people. And then you're back to square one with prop 8 and all the constitutional amendments.