Uh,since when is getting married a “right”? It’s not a right,just like driving is not a right;It’s a privlege. Where is it written in the Constitution that we have the right to get married,or to adopt?
It's not a right for us.
It's only a right for homosexuals.
Since forever. There are some things so fundamental to civilization and so essential to the human condition that they are outside the bounds of the state to forbid. They are God-given rights.
Where is it written in the Constitution that we have the right to get married,or to adopt?
The 9th Amendment was written to address these rights. Something like marriage was such a given at the time of the drafting it would have been superfluous to list.
That being said, homosexuals are not demanding a right to marry which they already have. They currently have the same marriage rights that all have had in the West for millenia - to marry one person of the opposite sex.
What the homosexuals are asking for is a special "right" that no one currently has. That being the specific "right" to marry someone they are sexually attracted to. No one has ever had that right, nor should it ever be codified as a "right".
the founders knew that they could not enumerate all of the unalienable rights and that was the fear that some short minded folks would look to the rights enumerated and say... “that’s not in the constitution”...
so they left the unwritten as up to the states or the people to vex...
be careful on that slippery slope you tread...
teeman