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"Read the constitution, hold it up to the light, squeeze lemon juice on it--you won't see a right to gay marriage in there. It is simply not an enumerated right, nor is it a right that can be clearly derived from other enumerated rights."

Dinesh, you miserable little jackass, rights don't COME FROM the Constitution, they are GUARANTEED BY the Constitution. Rights COME FROM the simple fact of existence. They're inherent, inalienable.

“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.”
- US Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

Free people have the fundamental right to whatever familial and financial arrangements best suit their desires and happiness.

What they don't have a right to is the legal recognition and acceptance of such arrangements and the accrual of legal benefits as a result of that recognition. What they don't have a right to is changing the law by changing the meaning of a word, rather than changing it through the legislative process.

15 posted on 05/20/2008 10:04:02 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel
Rights come from God.

God never gave anybody the right to marry someone of the same sex.

Sodomites make God sick.

28 posted on 05/20/2008 11:28:21 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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