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1 posted on 10/11/2014 5:17:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Pass all the laws you want to. There is no such thing as same-sex marriage. Never was, and never will be.


2 posted on 10/11/2014 5:19:58 PM PDT by marron
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To: SeekAndFind

No.....racist though....for sure.


3 posted on 10/11/2014 5:19:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve never heard of more errant nonsense in my entire life.

No one is prevented from marrying someone of the opposite sex. Now liberals proclaim that’s sexist.

You know when they run out of arguments to defend the indefensible.


5 posted on 10/11/2014 5:21:46 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: GeronL

Ping.

So, they bring out the “sexism” label for opponents of state-sanctioned homosexual relationships. Curious. If your position is so inevitable and, supposedly, embraced, then why make such a claim? Smacks of desperation.


6 posted on 10/11/2014 5:24:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gay marriage bans are biblical.


7 posted on 10/11/2014 5:26:17 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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8 posted on 10/11/2014 5:27:17 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe we should call the electrical industry Sexist....they require certain “male” and “female” items in order to make things work don’t they? Sheesh.


11 posted on 10/11/2014 5:40:36 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would think gay marriage would be itself sexism in that it discriminates against one of the sexes.


12 posted on 10/11/2014 5:57:41 PM PDT by Penny 4 Thoughts
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"... argues that same-sex-marriage bans also constitute sex discrimination"

Where did these misguided activist judges go to law school? (I don't really want to know.)

As mentioned in related threads, regardless of the 14th Amendment's (14A) Equal Protections Clause (EPC), the Supreme Court didn't buy Virginia Minor's argument in Minor v. Happersett that her citizenship, in conjunction with the EPC, automatically gave her the right to vote regardless that she was a woman.

The Supreme Court countered Ms Minor's argument by clarifying, as evidenced by the excerpt below, that the 14th Amendment didn't add any new rights to the Constitution, that it only strengthens enumerated protections and immunities as Section 1 of 14A clearly indicates (RTFM).

“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

In fact, the Court's statement about 14A reflects the clarification of the scope of 14A by John Bingham, Bigham the main author of Section 1 of 14A, where the EPC is found. Bingham had clarified that 14A applied only those rights amended to the Constitution by the states to the states, as opposed to PC "rights" that are subjectively read into the EPC by activist judges.

“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” — Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)

And since the states hadn't amended the Constitution to expressly protect the right to vote based on sex before the Court heard Ms Minor's argument, there was no such protection for women after 14A was ratified.

But Ms Minor's efforts did not go unrewarded. This is because the states later ratified the 19th Amendment (19A) to the Constitution which essetially gave women the right to vote.

But unlike the ratification of 19A to give women the right to vote, it remains that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called “right” to gay marriage. So it also remains that the states are free to exercise their unchecked, 10A-protected power to make laws which discriminate against constitutionally unprotected things like gay marriage, imo, as long as such laws don't also unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.

14 posted on 10/11/2014 6:36:08 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: SeekAndFind

So much energy gets spent on this. My take... same-sex unions aren’t desirable for a number or reasons, but shouldn’t be suppressed by the government, which should stay out of it. But, these unions shouldn’t be called marriage, either. Or maybe, it should be called marriage-with-an-asterisk, like the home run records of baseball players who took steroids. It’s just not the same.


16 posted on 10/11/2014 6:47:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

The fact is that marriage as an institution has been with us for millennia, and has suddenly been reinvented to satisfy homosexual activists. Please excuse those who don’t recognize this sham.


17 posted on 10/11/2014 7:01:43 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: SeekAndFind

nope.

trying to stem the tide of immorality.


19 posted on 10/11/2014 7:30:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Are Gay-Marriage Bans a Form of Sexism?

These pro-sodomy doofuses apparently didn't get the memo.

Opposition to pervert pretend marriages is caused by global warming.

If the deviants weren't determined to destroy the ancient definition of "marriage" above all else, they could continue their perversion unmolested and invisible.

Insisting on flouting their clinical insanity has made it impossible to simply live and let live.

Normal families with pro-sodomy children or other relatives may want to re-examine their unconditional support of the disgusting practice.

I suppose I could also say the same about the "conservative" Fox News staff.

For me, forget about watching Megyn Kelly after two years. Stealth pro-sodomy supporter.

20 posted on 10/11/2014 7:56:39 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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