But doesn't the reverse of that mean that you want to use religious beliefs to denigrate the civil rights of others!!
I can see it now.
Congregations leaving the Church, marching down to a home, and burning a rainbow on the lawn.
No ones civil rights are being violated, all people follow the same rules regarding marriage. Churches don't establish laws, people do.
Wouldn't breaches of contracts be even more difficult to prove?
Perhaps. Again, what difference does that make?
Care to show who's mind you've changed, on here??
I don't need to change minds, a simple majority ratifies a Constitutional amendment, and in every state, there is a majority who oppose gay marriage. It is YOU who needs to change some minds, and you haven't.
If you consider these forums to be representative of the population, you really must get out more.
I would say these forums are slanted considerably more to the left and libertarian than social conservative. If you're not changing minds here, you're really going to have problems with the social conservatives.
This same bullshit?
No one is suggesting we marry children below the age of consent. No one is suggesting we lower the age of consent except a very, very tiny group of pedophiles.
There is harm done to a child in your situation. No harm done to anyone in a gay marriage.
No one is suggesting it YET! Once we've codified law based on someone's sex life, we are bound by the equal protection clause of the Constitution, whether you like it or not. How can you give a 'right' to one group of sexual deviants, and not give the same 'right' to another?
Nah, you don't really support civil unions, you've berated and tried to "insult" people who do continuously on this thread and will do nothing to try to actually get them passed. Your inaction belies your true sentiment, and with it your "prediction" of how you'll celebrate your schadenfruede...
You're full of shit as usual Dumo. You're the only one who half way agrees with my solution here, but you are bouncing between that and outright legalizing Gay Marriage, which I am opposed to. You're a fucking idiot, and you don't really give a shit about this issue, as long as you get a balanced budget amendment. I'm not a congressman or a lobbyist, I can't do anything to get anything passed. I stated truthfully what I would accept, and you don't have to believe me.
Equality isn't subject to a vote, nitwit.
No one is being treated unequally! The rules apply to all parties the exact same! No one can marry same sex, just like no one can marry kids or animals. There is no discrimination, except in your empty thoughtless head.
I said marriage equality is going to ultimately be upheld in the courts, as a matter of basic civil rights, and equality under the law. Get used to it, and deal with it. It's going to ultimately happen.
And get used to a new Constitutional amendment! Because that will ultimately happen as well!
I don't give a crap how a bunch of overweight, middle aged white dudes in a legislature think they would vote on this. And I don't give a crap if my neighbor down the street is stressing out about gays.
Well you really better start giving a shit, because they are the ones who will ratify a Constitutional amendment and kill Gay Marriage forever.
My experience is that there's a shitload of people who spend their days stressing out about the sex lives of people they don't even know.
Yeah, I have to wonder why you do it?