RE: Marriage discrimination struck down in Arkansas.
May 10, 2014 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2014 at 10:43 pm by Heywood.)
(May 10, 2014 at 10:21 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(May 10, 2014 at 10:10 pm)Heywood Wrote: We can talk about the baker who is forced to bake for gay weddings or the photographer who is forced to shoot pictures at gay weddings...no ninth amendment for them. It seems "pursuit of happiness" only means what the reader or a judge wants it to means....in otherwords....as a guiding doctrine its so ambiguous that it is meaningless.
No professional baker is forced to be a professional baker. Just so, no professional baker has the right to violate the law in the process of practicing that profession. If that professional baker wants to be a professional baker, there are certain rules that baker must follow. If he does not wish to follow those rules, he is free to choose a profession in which he does not have to make a compromise with his deeply-felt hatreds.
Yeah, and no one is denying gays the right to marry. They can marry someone of the opposite sex just like anyone else. If they don't want to marry someone of the opposite sex, they are free to choose not to marry at all.....just like to photographer is free to choose not to be a photographer.
(May 10, 2014 at 10:31 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You know, Heywood, for someone who claims to be ambivalent about marriage equality, you sure spend a hell of a lot of time arguing against it.
One can only speculate why.
I like the debate. Good arguments teaches you to think about and defend your position. Also this thread would have been one big boring circle jerk without me.
However I more certain then ever that Government should just stay out of marriage all together.
