Needs to change..things change...we figured out keeping humans as slaves was not a good idea @ 1 point in history...
Slave ownership is not a protected class, either, nor should it be. Keeping humans as slaves has nothing whatsoever to do with gay marriage. Nothing. It's not even a valid analogy when it comes to change itself. Your arguments are all emotional arguments, not thought out or reasoned. Religion and reason are incompatible. I'll circle back to that later.
You want sexual orientation to be listed as a protect class? Why?
"Oh, because it should be. It just should be, and that's all there is to it! It's the right thing to do!" Yeah, well, as soon as you open the door to protecting a
specifictype of sexual orientation, like homosexuality, you are suddenly discriminating against
all others. And I do mean ALL sexual deviations from the norm. Can you think of any sexual orientations that should not be protected? Because you can't protect one kind without protecting all kinds. Not if the Equal Protection Clause means anything at all.
Sexual orientation is defined as one's natural preference in sexual partners.
There are several problems with going out on that limb. One, the emotional argument is made for heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality. But also out on that limb lies NAMBLA, prostrate, licking their chops mumbling things like, "Hoosier Daddy?" Children are a natural preference in sexual partners, too, for some. It it ain't normal, but it's natural. Gee, where have I heard that before? A little farther out on the same limb are those necrophiliacs we all know and love. Every single deviant sexual attraction, and therefore the act itself, is now protected. Not only that, but now that you've gone there, you've played right into the hands of the religious nuts by protecting the sex act of your preferred sexual partner, not the attraction itself, so you've invited the government into your bedroom.
The only normal sexual attraction is heterosexual attraction between males and females, because that's how and why the species is still here. Everything else that doesn't purport to that goal is a deviation from nature of promoting the furtherance of the species. There's a reason the UN hasn't even defined "sexual orientation" and declared it to be a human right, and why they are highly unlikely to, and it's because of precisely what I'm talking about.
change needs to come so all HUMANS are legally allowed to MARRY who they choose...anything less is crazy..
Anything less is crazy. Interesting. Throughout all of recorded history (that goes back to 3500 BC, so more than 5500 years), except for the odd handful of exceptions here and there, a marriage was between a man and a woman, and it never had to be spelled out that way in the law. It's how society was formed, how it flourished, and how it survived. There's nothing crazy about that. You know what is crazy, though? Being self-centered and selfish so bad, to the point of only considering what you want without regard to others, and throwing a temper tantrum over it and trying to upset and destroy that which has worked exceedingly well for all of recorded human history. And that's precisely what this whole gay marriage thing is.
In 1970 two gay University of Minnesota students went to the district court clerk and asked for a marriage license. They were denied, and sued, because they wanted it really, really badly, without regard to more than 5470 years of recorded successful human history. They lost, huge.
Up until then, there was no restriction on gender in any marriage statute in any state within the U.S., and only three countries in the world at that time had enumerated gender restrictions (Brazil, Indonesia, and ironically, Egypt, because the first ever recorded same-sex union in history was in Egypt). There simply wasn't much of a need to spell out the blatantly obvious.
Then, in 1973, as a backlash to the court case, knowing that others would soon begin using the court system to try and get their wants and desired fulfilled, Maryland became the first state ever to have to write it down, to statutorily ban same-sex marriage. In the following 20 years, nearly every other state joined Maryland in statutorily banning same-sex marriage, totaling 47 states by 1994. That was quick.
But at the same time, in 1979 The Netherlands adopted "unregistered cohabitation" in civil law that gave gays the exact rights they were asking for, but it was soundly rejected by gays in the US as acceptable. They wanted the "M" word. In the 1980s Denmark became the first country in the entire world to recognize same-sex unions, with "registered partnerships" having the same exact meanings and rights as a marriage. Gays here rejected it, because it didn't have the correct title. They wanted the "M" word.
In the 1990s a few other countries did the same thing, Belgium, France, even California set up full-rights civil unions, with the same reaction from gays here in America. Not good enough, even though it's exactly the same in every way that matters. But, in 1993, a judge ruled that Hawaii's state law banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, and the gays knew they had their foot in the door. The reaction from Hawaii, though? They along with Alaska became the first states in the history of recorded history to pass State Constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage. Other US states followed suit and passed similar amendments in the following years, reaching a peak of 31 in 2012.
One by one these statues and amendments are being eliminated, because they are crazy, according to you. According to you all of society has been crazy for 99.2 percent of all of recorded human history. But by definition, crazy is deranged, out of proper range, disordered, senseless, impractical, totally unsound. But those words don't accurately describe 5500 years of practical, totally sound, logical, meaningful and rational human history. To describe the denial of same-sex marriage as crazy is short-sighted and off the mark, by 99.2 percent. You can't get much worse than that. Can you imagine having a .08 percent on-time delivery rate, and calling anything else crazy? I mean, you should be able to deliver any time you want, right?
NO NO you can not marry and devout your life to the 1 you love ..because of how you were born...crazy
Yes, exactly. Born crazy. Well, 99.2 percent crazy, anyway.
The case you, and those you are allied with, are making is an emotional case not grounded in reality or rational thought. It's a case that has far more in common with religious fanaticism than reality. You believe it to be right, therefore it is, and nothing will change your mind. But you haven't thought it through, haven't considered the consequences (granted, liberals never consider consequences, as the initial feel-good intent is all that matters, the consequences are inconsequential).
But we are already seeing the consequences, and they're serious. The Swedes have lost their freedoms of speech and religion. It started in 2003 when two pastors were arrested for reading from the scriptures and saying homosexuality is wrong. Where, oh, where did they performed this heinous act? In their own churches on a Sunday morning. Since then many others, preachers and non-preachers alike, have been arrested for daring to speak out against homosexuality. The institution of marriage is in grave decline in Scandinavia, because it no longer has any meaning. The Boy Scouts of American, a private organization, have faced countless lawsuits and are discriminated against for not allowing homosexual scout leaders for young boys. That's obscene. Long-term employees of major corporations have been fired for expressing their views against homosexuality. Freedom of speech? Not any more.
Once these consequences play out, the backlash against homosexuals is gonna be really ugly. Human nature, and history, shows that to be true. You don't upend 5500 years of human society and remain unscathed. After this glorious 15 minutes of fame, the lid will get clamped down, hard, just like it always has been in the past. Then it's the Matrix Reloaded all over again.
