How would you feel if someone told you, you couldnt marry the person of your dreams???
Should the court system be able to decide if you get married or not.
There has been so many stories in the media of states deciding whether or not gay marriages should be legally binding. Currently The Supreme Court in California is split in decision. Arising questions are whos to decide the matrimony of anyone whether they are black, black, white, straight, or gay? Isnt this a form of discrimination just like race or gender? State bans against black and whites were lifted.
In my personal opinon I feel the decision shouldnt be left up to the government. Although I respect the government it is my feeling its a violation of rights to deny a gay marriage. In the United States of America we are given the rights to speech, religion and expression. Who's to say what is moral and immoral? Is there a book of morality? If a person is disagrees with gay marriage then thay shouldnt marry within their gender and leave others to express themselves freely. It is disappointing to me to see that our nations courts have enough free time to make personal decisions for us while there are murders on the loose, raprists being freed on technicalities, and people living in poverty in need of help.
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I think the government should absolutely not be allowed to determine marriages. Being a Christian I'm supposed to say that gay marriage is wrong and that it should be illegal...adam and eve, not adam and steve...and all that cliche stuff, but in issues like this I think equality trumps beliefs. The establishment clause of the Constitution says the wall between church and state must be kept high and impregnable. Therefore, we cannot bring religiously founded principles into governmental policies. The government is founded on equality, not biblical morals. Thus, the government should enforce and extended this equality to ALL peoples, not just the ones they decide to.
Yay, a sane Christian!
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The government shouldn't be deciding who we marry. The government isn't going to be affected by the marriage. Only the people who are getting married will be affected by the marriage. How does gay marriage have a negative affect on our state?
From their POV, allowing gay marriage will hurt the "sanctity" of straight marriage and somehow cause more divorce, broken families, more kids "turning gay", etc.
to answer your question about morality, it is indeed up to the government. That right is one we give up within the social contract when we agree to give up some freedoms to get the benefits from the government. but, that still doesn't give the government the right to infringe on these people's right in such an extreme manner. They do have to set regulations because if we left it up to the individual then people would be permitted to commit murder and rape because to them it may be moral. The difference with the government regulating this and gay marriage is that problems like murder and rape are a detriment to society. Gay marriage is not. While it may make some people uncomfortable to see two men or two women married, it doesn't actually hurt anyone. So, you are right in saying morals are up to the government, but only when the action is detrimental to society as a whole.
Yeah, totally! The girl of my dreams is a gorgeous little six-year-old and she totally wants to marry me, why should anyone be able to tell us we can't?
Seriously though, I completely agree with you. Would like to point out though that you made a little mistake in your title - "who's" means "who is" ('s always means that pretty much), you should've written "whose".
Ironic...mine too...j/k...but yeah no one should tell someone no about marriage