ArchivedWhy do you oppose gay marriage?So technically (should we say Constitutionaly) the Supreme Court should NOT have established a "right to privacy". However, morally it is okay? By whose morals? The 9 panel Supreme Court? I am not sure when the Supreme Court ruled any ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional but this was probably due to a Southern state's state law and just like the Texas Sodomy Law was not enforced equitably. When I was a child living in California interracial marriages were not banned by that state (between 1943 and 1951). So the Court's decision was based not on morals but on equal treatment under the law, which is one reason they struck down the Texas sodomy law. I lived in Houston Texas for 23 years and the vice squad could have prosecuted many gay men for public sodomy and yet choose to prosecute them for public indecency. Why? The fines were better for the city of Houston and those cited did not end up in jail therefore the city did not have the expense of incarcerating them. When issues of morality are concerned the Court has allowed communities and states to set the standards. This is why some states don't allow adult entertainment within x number of feet of schools and churches, other states are primarily dry (meaning no alcoholic beverages can be sold within the confines of an area determined by local governments). For instance Texas has only 25 wet counties, 48 dry counties, with the remainder partially wet per county and city ordinance. You see gay unions as a civil liberties issue, I and other evangelical Christians, Muslims, and other religious groups see this as a morality issue. So the Court will need legislative direction to do anything under the Constitution of the United States or they will have overstepped their authority and Constitutional mandate. |
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