RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
June 7, 2015 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 2:11 pm by Anima.)
(June 6, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I love it, from "we have an interest in continuing our discrimination" to "we'll just continue to be bigots no matter what laws you pass".
On the first count, we don't (and isn't it lovely to frame the conversation in such a blatant display of disregard for our fellow man...lol), and the second is a -no shit- statement.
Of course bigots will continue to be bigots regardless of the laws we write or the manner in which we coerce their compliance....if that weren't true then we probably wouldn't need to discuss this issue at the level of the supreme court, eh?
@Rob, LOL..you don't need to know much to get to the heart of this, all the legal'eez is just a veneer through which the witless argue -for- that which they would otherwise be ashamed -of-.
Being a bigot is not illegal (4th Amendment right to privacy). Saying bigoted things is not illegal (1st Amendment freedom of speech). Even discrimination is not illegal so long as it past the proper level of scrutiny (4th Amendment right to privacy and 14th Amendment due process clause).
So ad hominem name calling is the trues sign of wit? The law does not let the religious nut go to court and say, "This law is bigoted and stupid. Change it!!" any more than it lets you do the same.
As stated by Aristotle, "The law is reason free from passion" and "There is no greater form of inequality than to try to treat to unequal things as if they were equal." So we know there is a need to discriminate groups of people from one another, otherwise we run the risk of false equivalency and injustice. What is being argued here is if the discrimination here is invidious. It is not sufficient to say, "I feel it is stupid, get rid off it" anymore than for someone else to say, "I feel it is stupid to get rid off it" without giving any reason.
Be happy we it is being argued at length in stupid legal'eez. It could just be resolved in the manner of any lawless society, by killing en mass.