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By partitioning our choices and making some right and some wrong, we are violating the civil rights of gay people. No one is hurt, maimed, or killed when gay people want to legitimize union. I'm tired of living legally as a single person, when in fact, I've been in a gay, domestic partnership for 20 years. This is as intolerable now, as a time when women couldn't vote. Or when interracial marriage was illegal. We are way too smart to deny civil rights to gay people anymore.
Twokandoux

6 responses // It's Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Civil Rights

  • Patrick-Thanks for your response. You're correct in assuming I'm happy. And I'm sorry you don't have a job, but that's a different discussion. My point of contention is that as a straight man, you have choices and liberties and assumptions that you can select from, regarding your personal expression, that are denied to me. You can choose to live as you wish. I wish to have the same rights and liberties that straight couples are given. I see no reason for this denial in a country where civil liberties are considered our greatest asset. It's hypocritical in the least, and cowardly at best.
    Twokandoux
  • I hope you get your wish. I wish all the best for you and your partner and hope someday you can drop the partner and say spouse.
    larissajo
  • To PatrickEdwardMurray:
    A couple of things:
    If you believe that marriage is not a federal power, than I imagine that you believe two things: First, the courts should strike down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act. Second, that this president, nor any subsequent president or Congress should work to amend the United States Constitution to define marriage between one man and one woman, or in any way limit the rights of same-sex couples. Thank you for your support.

    You went on to say that not everybody can have everything. Not only do I disagree with you, but The Constitution does. The 14th Amendment says, in part: "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This guarantees that same-sex couples can, in fact, have everything that opposite sex couples have. Just because some high powered people are on the wrong side of history right now, doesn't mean that The Constitution doesn't prevail.

    I'll also add to this the UNANIMOUS Declaration of the thirteen states of America, also known as the Declaration of Independence, in which Thomas Jefferson wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable [inalienable] Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

    Again, "unalienable" sounds an awful lot to me like EVERYBODY can, in fact, have everything. Even homosexuals.
    bully2
  • Iagree with youTwokandoux
    I hope that civil rights only progress to the rights that this country was founded on freedom of choose and I beleive one day we will have those rights lets fight for it.
    drearyeric
  • Counting your blessings is one thing but any and all of us can find ourselves in need of help at any time. The problem with denying GLBTI individuals from marrying is that soon this also leads down the sad path of more and more and more and more rights being taken away from us. There are too many sad stories of GLBTI couples who have been unable to see their (sometimes) dying loved one in the hospital, inheritances being greedily grabbed by surviving blood relatives (even if a GLBTI couple has been in a relationship for fifty or more years). LEGALLY we are denied countless rights and you practically have to be a magician/physician/lawyer in order to navigate our current system of "justice for all".
    housewolf
  • I agree with you entirely. Am facing this currently in that the person I love most in the world can't even remain with me in this country because she is a New Zealand citizen. Were the same civil rights afforded us as other couples, getting a civil union/marriage (semantics) would allow her to start the process of immigration. As it is, she can't, and therefore I have to wait two months until I graduate uni and then move halfway around the world just to see her again.

    Our story is here if you're interested: http://current.com/items/88893638_the_hours_uncivil_dis...

    And thank you for posting this!
    brittars

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