Marc Anthony;9796090
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]The thing is, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. All laws legislate morality to one extent or another.
Laws also by their very nature discriminate. I discriminate whenever I pick one brand of cheese over the other at the store.
The real question is whether or not this is putting the legislation of morality OVER the values held in a free society like the United States.
The way it needs to be done is to allow the Constitution and the laboratories of democracy (ie the states) work.
So for instance in states like VT, MA, NY or even IA were there are gay rights, it’s worth noting that those states are losing population and/or influence due their secular, liberal nature. In fact, Iowa recently recalled three republican judges who legalized so-called “gay marriage” over the will of the people.
That action may be unprecedented.
In New York, NOM helped primary out some lawmakers who legalized so-called “gay marriage” there.
50 years ago, NY had 45 electoral votes. Now, they have 29. Texas used to have about 24. Now they have 38.
See a pattern here?
What happens in societies that invest in nonsense like so-called “gay marriage” is they basically throw their money away, and people take notice. Same-sex couples cannot reproduce themselves, and despite the progressive choke-hold on the social sciences, research is starting to show that same-sex relationships are often unstable and unsuitable for children.
The pattern I see here is the same pattern with co-habitation. In the late 60s and 70s, people said it was “no big deal” but in the 80s and 90s, research came out showing it was costly and quite detrimental.
States that have legalized “gay marriage” will soon find out (one way or another) that it isn’t much of an investment and all it is largely a bunch of people huddling together trying to look and feel good in front of someone different, and that is what they are paying for.
To be clear, same-sex activity is not the main reason why this happens, but it really does show a measure of social decay and decline.
Note that no state with legalized gay rights, including the great state of Iowa, have a birth rate that can replenish the population.
At what point is the enforcement of morality infringing on the rights given to us in the U.S. Constitution?
Whenever your behavior interferes with your neighbor’s Constitutional rights. Marriage, abortion, bailouts, education and health care are NOT Constitutional rights and were meant to be dealt with at the state level regardless of whether they existed or not when the Constitution was written.
Forcing me to do business with someone because they are gay or taking the fruits of my labor and giving it to them violates my Constitutional rights.
What so many Americans do not understand is that there is Constitutional right to many of the things they think are “rights”.
They also do not understand the plenary police power of the states. In fact, aspiring politicians used to** run for federal office* before*** state or territorial office because the states and territories used to have all the power.
