To: Ray76
If a group of persons wishes to form a personal conjugal venture they must comply with the laws enacted by the elected legislature, laws which govern marriages. I don't see how this can be the case. So if a heterosexual couple wants to get married and is free to do so by any objective measure, what happens if an elected legislature tells them that they can't?
236 posted on
09/02/2015 4:27:03 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: Alberta's Child
Natural rights constrain public officials. Any law in violation of natural rights gives the injured the moral right to disobey it. Not only the right to disobey, but the duty to disobey.
According to John Locke, we may go further. We have the right to punish "officials" who injure our natural rights.
244 posted on
09/02/2015 6:39:21 AM PDT by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Alberta's Child
See laws regarding minors, incest, and polygamy.
247 posted on
09/02/2015 7:45:17 AM PDT by
Ray76
(When a gov't leads it's people down a path of destruction resistance is not only a right but a duty.)
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