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[Baron Samedi]

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Equal rights for homosexuals WILL be a reality in the very near future. Nothing you bitch about will change that.

+1 to the poster who cited Loving v. Virginia. It's a very accurate analogy.

I wasn't aware elective artificial insemination was a right. Learn something new everyday, I guess. 😕

 

[Baron Samedi]

And if the majority votes for an amendment making homosexuals having sex illegal?

Or...alcohol?

What do you do if the majority wants a constitutional amendment that is clearly discriminatory?

Someone missed the high school lecture on Checks and Balances. This is why we have a Supreme Court.

 

[morning]

Someone missed the high school lecture on Checks and Balances. This is why we have a Supreme Court.

And who would that someone be? I'm not the one with the problem with judges; Perrotfish is the one who thinks that the Supreme Court oversteps its bounds on social issues.

 

[shiftingmirage]

It is not, in fact, laughable to think that either citizens or their elected representatives should need to write and ratify a law for a law to exist, and one of the worst developments in the history of this nation was the proliferation of 'laws' and 'rights' that had never been codified by any authority and in fact were inveted based on whatever beliefs are currently fashionable amoung the current elite. It's made it infintely harder for citizens to link their own actions and activism to the laws that govern them, whch is just about the opposite of what the founding fathers intended.

This isn't a complicated concept: the Constitution says what is says and not anything more than that. If the words themselves are ambigiuous you go back and make a good faith attempt to figure out what they were trying to accomplish. If you want the Constituion to say something different you have to change it by writing an ammendment. If it doesn't say anything about a subject (i.e. gay rights) then it just doesn't say anything about that, and citizens are free to follow their consciences.

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Ninth Amendment.
Just because the Constitution does not specify a right does not mean one does not have that right.

 

[Poliscidoc]

Epic first post OP, nobody going to scream troll for wanting to start a flame war?