Posted on 08/08/2010 10:59:55 PM PDT by Libloather
This applies to the BRAND NEW gay marriage law.
You can prove where you were at some point and time. You can prove that you pay taxes. You can prove you're pregnant.
In the eyes of the court, how do you prove that you're gay?
I wonder about it too. It appears to not be based on sexual prefernece but on gender. I see nothing in the rulings requiring one to be gay. I also wonder about Ted Olsen. He seems to be basing his argument on the equal protection clause. Well how about all the laws the Feds have passed that do not comply with this part of the Constitution. Many Liberal laws do not apply to all citizens equally. I wonder if a Supreme Court ruling here would set precedent to overturn a lot of ‘unequal’ Liberal laws?
Better question: If one gay in a marriage decides to go straight, does it invalidate their marriage?
My younger brother said he became gay because he “couldn’t get women”. That contradicts the idea that you are “born that way”, at least for some of them.
My personal belief is that as my brother became more liberal, he subconsciously realized that he was the oppressor class in all these liberal social arguments because he was white, male and Christian. It’s no fun being a liberal if everyone else gets to play the victim card, and you can’t. So, combine this with his social failures and he became a perfect target for recruitment in the gay cult. He finds acceptance and sexual gratification plus he now gets to see himself as an oppressed victim, not a hated oppressor.
But you’ll never convince me he was “born gay”. He chose becoming gay out of political opportunism.
BFL
You’re two guys and you are shopping at World Market.
What gun?
You can’t prove that you’re gay because gay isn’t a state of being. It is merely a collection of chosen actions that some people do.
Well those who WANT to be gay are obvious. That wasn’t the question. What stops it from being used as a masquerade by non-gay?
What if you saw the text first?
HUH?
Sorry your dog had to experience that.
Still, I hold you responsible...
Your younger brother is a quiter. He never figured out why god made darkness and beer?
That scenario will probably play out a lot as hetero guys who have no interest in marrying/having families start doing this just for benefits; there will be no way for the government to stop it, and the companies will have to provide the benefits (at least for a couple of years, before we’re all covered under Obamacare).
The same way you prove you are african-american.
The same way you prove you are conservative.
The same way you prove you are islamic.
So I can’t go in World Market with my dad?
And since you were the first to mention it...?
The only way you know is to observe the act.
Conversely, the only way that someone can be “discriminated against” for being gay
is if they TELL SOMEONE that they’re gay.
Not so with “race”.
Also, you don’t see many “ex-black” people, Michael Jackson being the notable exception.
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