Court's ruling opens new era in civil rights (Derrick Z Jerrkoff Alert- GayRights=Civil Rights

Boston Globe ^ | 11/21/2003 | Derrick Z. Jackson

[Lance Romance]

ONE OF THE beauties of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling to affirm gay marriage was how Chief Justice Margaret Marshall hitched the decision to the inexorably grinding wheels of civil rights. She cited a 1948 decision of the Supreme Court of California that struck down the bar to interracial marriage. She said that case and others to follow made it clear that "the right to marry means little if it does not include the right to marry the person of one's choice."

[Lance Romance]

Remember when gays couldn't vote? Remember when gays had a seperate water fountain or when gays had to ride at the back of the bus?

There goes another Derrick Z. argument. To equate civil right to gay rights does a disservice to the civil rights struggle. No one is being denied their Life, Liberty or Pursuit of Happiness.

[2banana]

Carter quoted the section of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" that said the most "sacred right" and most "sacred obligation" is to "see to it that the blood is preserved pure," because mixed-race people were "trash." Carter said, "Let us not forget that this was the man who plunged the world into a war in which, for the third time, Americans fought, bled, and died for the truth of the proposition that all men are created equal."

Funny how "progressives" seem to support other ideas of Hitler - Gun control, centralized government control of the economy, banning of "thoughts" not in agreement with government, making laws not through elected representatives but by decree, etc.

[ClearCase_guy]

The next time President Bush declares that the SJC's ruling "violates" the "sacred institution" of marriage, he ought to remember how the word "sacred" was stained by the 20th century's most infamous figure.

To summarize the argument:

Hitler misused the word "sacred". Therefore, the concept of sacredness is now kaput. There is nothing sacred. There is no God. There is no Morality. And it's all Hitler's fault. And Bush's.

[LiteKeeper]

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