(June 7, 2011 at 1:19 am)Minimalist Wrote:Actually I agree with Minimalist here. A family member is in a gay marriage (legal) now; no one in our (direct) family has cut her off or thinks anything particularly special about it. She is even a Deaconess in her (Christian) church.Quote:are kinda weird, but are normal people citizens who deserve all the rights I afford myself granted by the constitution.
I guess this is as close as I can get.
I assume the post is from the USA. The Constitution does not "grant" rights, as the USA's Declaration of Independence states rights are "inalienable." (Bad usage, should have been "unalienable.") The Constitution says the government will "guarantee" (protect) rights. Big difference. Rights do not derive from Government (though they can be squelched by one). (And no, they don't derive from a religious source, either.)
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."