As I understand it, it is about the 14th Amendment. Can the government treat people differently.
The judges decision and the gay advocates say the government must treat every citizen the same.
The larger picture here is interesting. If the ruling is Yes, the government must treat everyone equally then the next round of lawsuits will be the progressive tax structure.
Can the government give free homes, schools, food, medicine to one citizen and not to another. Can it take 10% from one person and nothing from another. That answer will become no. Everyone must be treated the same if you take 10% from one you must take 10% from everyone. If you take 5% then everyone pays the same. The entire progressive income tax structure will be forced to be removed and every citizen must be treated equally.
This story has a long way to go until it ends.
Any man can marry any woman. Everyone is treated equally.
There is nothing that says a queer can't marry a dyke, so they have the exact same rights that everyone else has.
In the case of marriage laws, everyone is already treated equally. That’s very disturbing to me, that the law isn’t being interpreted in the gay marriage cases.
Everyone is treated equally under current marriage law. Everyone can marry only one partner at a time. Everyone must be of legal age, a consenting adult, not certain close relatives. Everyone can only marry a person of the opposite sex.
But the liberals reject this equal treatment argument, because it doesn’t allow a woman to marry another woman. Well, these cases are a case of legislating from the bench, because the judges have to change the definition of marriage to come to the conclusion that marriage should just be any two people.
And then polygamy lawsuits are around the corner, because limiting marriage to only two people is also discriminatory against those who want to marry more than one person at a time. Age limits could be next. The legal reasoning used in the gay marriage cases is not correct.
I agree.
If under the 14th Amendment the ‘behavior’ of people must be treated equally then I do not see how any of the current tax laws could not also be ruled as un-Constitutional. Currently a hard-working lifestyle is subject to one set of laws which is to punish heavily through taxation while a lazy dysfunctional lifestyle is subject to another set of laws and is rewarded and subsidized. This is hardly ‘Equal Protection Under the Law’.
I have never understood this issue. In every village in America, no matter how remote, there is a law office that can draw up a partnership, a "civil union," between any two citizens of the land.
In their contract, they can assign roles to each other covering every aspect of human activity. They can insure each other, share their incomes, wear dresses one week and trousers the next, live in the same room, go out on the lawn and howl naked at the moon (neighbors and space permitting). They can tell the neighbors anything they want. They can adopt children and leave their estate to them. They can file a joint tax return through the partnership. Where is the problem?
All the law says is that right now, they cannot be declared a "married" couple, because "marriage" to the state, is a more or less permanent civil union between a man and a woman.
Gay "marriage" is a psychological issue. IMHO, not a legal one.