God, Gays and Marriage
Over at the Fourth and Walnut blog (interesting title) a recent opinion piece stated several untruths as if they are facts.
In the article the author states:
I suggest the author tell Janice Langbehn how she has the right to visit her loved one in the hospital. I doubt Janice would be receptive since her lover died in a Florida hospital room alone, because the hospital wouldn’t allow Janice in the room. link
The author of the article also states:
It wasn’t so long ago religious fundies were saying:
In Loving vs Virginia the United States Supreme Court said:
"Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law."
The author of the article further states:
Some women die at childbirth. Therefore copulation resulting in child birth is injurious behavior. According to your words, women who die giving birth don't deserve any compassion.
Case closed.
In the article the author states:
Why should they be barred from visiting each other in the hospital, namingThe author is correct in stating we can exchange rings. Straights can exchange rings also but they choose to marry.
one another as insurance beneficiaries and exchanging rings in romantic
ceremonies? The truth is, they can do all three of those things legally
already.
I suggest the author tell Janice Langbehn how she has the right to visit her loved one in the hospital. I doubt Janice would be receptive since her lover died in a Florida hospital room alone, because the hospital wouldn’t allow Janice in the room. link
The author of the article also states:
The courts answered: “No, marriage is the sanction and financial benefits
society gives to moral unions that raise children in a stable, sound
environment.”
It wasn’t so long ago religious fundies were saying:
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he
placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his
arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he
separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
In Loving vs Virginia the United States Supreme Court said:
"Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law."
The author of the article further states:
It’s true that we should recognize the true nature of these relationships
and react compassionately. But true compassion doesn’t tolerate injurious
behavior.
Some women die at childbirth. Therefore copulation resulting in child birth is injurious behavior. According to your words, women who die giving birth don't deserve any compassion.
Case closed.
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