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The constitution doesn't say, and has never said, that interracial marriage is bad, or that gay marriage is bad, or that either is good. The constitution is an organizational, not a moral document. I'd vote for gay marriage a million times in any election and fund efforts to legalize it but it has nothing to do with the federal constitution (IMO). Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 03:27 PM. |
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Despite your rhetoric here, I bet pretty much 95% of your votes have been for people who believe marriage "is between a man and a woman." Because Democrats running for office talk like that too (including Obama). I'm sure the "D" next to the name is enough to earn your vote, so I'd love to know who you're voting for that has said much different (on the record, we know they all lie on this issue). I'm totally for gay marriage, I don't give a shit if people marry office furniture. I'm just a big believer in the original role of the constitution, and seperation of legislative and judicial powers. And I also believe that the errosion of that role, and that seperation, has actually held us back on a lot of social issues. Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 03:34 PM. |
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The issue is whether we are allowed to give marriage to one group of people and not the other. The 14th Amendment was created to prevent such cases and is seen in Loving vs Virginia. I don't see how this is any different from that. Unless you feel that ruling was incorrect as well and black people should not be given the right to marry a white person. |
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I'd pay some amount out of my own pocket to have legal gay marriage in my state, sure. How much is a very interesting question. I'd have to think about it. |
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[soapbox]The Constitution also does not give the right to all citizens to have representation in the House and Senate. The basic citizen of the United States doesn't care about the equal rights of a minority, particularly if that minority has different views than their own. *shrug*[/soapbox]
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So you would have opposed Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia? Or for a more recent example, Lawrence v. Texas? Is that what you're saying?
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Which I guess brings me to my next point. Is it the actual heath care that makes those costs (which are by the way under pressure and even caused the UK to reform its health care system just recently) or the lifestyles of people and the smaller, more homogeneous populations? The CDC has predicted that as many as 1/3 of Americans could develop diabetes by 2050. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/re...soar/19695629/ Last edited by Galaxy : 11-03-2010 at 03:54 PM. |
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I paid $0 in income taxes last year because the geniuses in Washington saw fit to give me thousands of dollars to buy a house I could afford anyway, so the question as asked wasn't really applicable. How much would you pay for gay marriage to be legal across the country? Double your taxes? Pretty meaningless unless we know how much you pay in taxes. I want an out-of-pocket number. (Though, I assume you give 100% of your discretionary income after food/shelter to worthy causes, Mr. bleeding heart, so you probably don't have much left.) And I've always wondered this too. If you really believe that the government does wonderful, humanitarian things with tax money - do you send them extra checks and stuff like the rest of us might give to a charity? Why not? Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 04:02 PM. |
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Race is different, and complicated, and a unique U.S. issue, and something we've specifically addressed in amending our constitution. I'd have to really flesh that out to say more than that, but I don't think those cases were wrongly decided. I do think Lawrence v. Texas was wrongly decided, even though I'm all in favor of consensual butt-sex. I'm going to try to explain that without too much thought or editing: Social change happens in this country at the point the Supreme Court just decides on their own that, "this shit is really important". I think that's way too much power for the judicial branch. And it's not something other, more socially progressive countries rely on, generally. Look at the legalization of gay marriage in Europe in the last decade. I think the reliance on the Supreme Court holds us back, honestly, though it's a pretty convoluted opinion that I'd have to flesh out to really write about. The gay marriage dominos are dropping. It will be legal more and more places in the U.S., people will get used it it, more and more people will realize that or society isn't destroyed by it, and sooner than later it becomes an accepted part of our culture. I do tend to believe that our idea that we can drag people kicking and screaming into a more tolerant society, instead of of encouraging and fostering overall cultural changes that bring about changes in tolerance (like you see in more tolerant countries), isn't a helpeful one. Where gay marriage is permitted in Europe, people generally believe in gay marriage. The next progressive cause that comes up - they're going to be relatively quick to adopt that too. If a couple of U.S. Supreme Court justices have strokes and gay marriage becomes a constitutional u.s. right tomorrow - I'm not sure that sets us up so perfectly for the next "progressive cause" in this country. Bottom line though - we're a country of laws. The ends don't always justify the means, and to ignore that isn't always desirable long-term. An individual thought that "this should be legal" isn't a good enough reason, to me, to bypass the constitution and impose that super-legislation on everyone. It might get us gay marriage faster, but it really doesn't make us more tolerant, or more prepared or capable for the next important social issue. Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 04:16 PM. |
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Pretty meaningless unless we know how much of a hit that will actually cost you. You brought it up. Quote:
It was a sincere question. I don't think a liberal needs to donate their whole check to Washington to be consistent, I'm just curious if any do give extra. That would be pretty compelling evidence of their sincerity that our tax dollars are going to something desirable (same with a pro-war conservatives - are they sending extra checks off to help with body armor and bullets?) It doesn't register at all on the compassion scale to say what other people should pay in taxes, any more it would be compassionate for me to have the opinion that rich people should give more money to charity. Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 04:20 PM. |
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Liberals (especially middle class and higher) can jack up their own tax rates now, they don't have to wait for someone to make them. Just send more money. I can see not wanting to be put at an unfair advantage against penny-pinching conservatives, I just wonder if that's it or if it's something else. Or would they just resent that services would still go to those who didn't pay enough? Not an unreasonable thought either. It'd be an interesting pledge drive though. Liberals could raise a ton of money and hand it over to government to administer some socially progressive program. Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 04:31 PM. |
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Hey - even I think you're being slightly out of line and douchey here. He admitted he'd pay something out of his own pocket, and then said it was an interesting question and he's not sure how much he'd pay and it's something he'd think about. No reason to jump down the guy's throat for that.
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Race is no different. It's only different because you're drawing an arbitrary line (or at least arguing an arbitrary line). And I get what you're talking about as far as waiting for the change to happen more organically, but what about the people whose civil rights are being violated now? It's just a case of "tough luck" for them? That's hardly just.
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No, you're mocking molson for "thinking" about giving "some" money to legalize gay marriage. This implies that for you, there is no thought. There is no limit. You are so strident that you would donate each paycheck in full to legalize gay marriage. Or am I mistaken?
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Race is definitely different, unless the gays were sold as property and still living with the economic repercussions of that years later.
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The "arbitrary line" is constitutional amendments. The reconstruction amendments were clearly about race. Which does make race different, to me, though obviously there's a million opinions on this. |
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We are discussing Loving vs Virginia. A case that was decided long after slavery was abolished. Slavery and economics have nothing to do with that case or issue. It's about whether the government can discriminate in who is allowed to marry.
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Oh, sorry, I must be imagining the Brown v. Board of Ed. in the quote.
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And the 4th Amendment was about preventing tax collectors from barging into homes. So does that mean you feel a police officer can walk into your home anytime they want and search your house without a warrant because the Amendment wasn't about that?
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I get it but it's not that simple. The Supreme Court can project the minority against the majority, but they don't get to determine what that "protection" entails out of thin air, or out of their own personal opinions. If a majority of people in Alabama want to own slaves, the Supreme Court can say no because our constitution forbids that. Do you believe that its within the Supreme Court's appropriate power to read ANY right it can come up with into the constitution, based on their own personal opinions about how people should live and tolerate others? I've said here that I'm for gay marriage but don't think it's in the constitution. Would you support a "right" you disagree with, if a couple of activist conservative judges thought it was OK? (maybe a individual, fundamental religious right to learn about evolution in public schools, which of course, based on a complicated legal analysis, they find doesn't actually contradict any other right?) Maybe that's a bad example but do you understand the question? It's easy to believe the Supreme Court was "right" in the use of its powers to do something you agree with. What if they used those same powers to invoke some crazy religious "rights" that had a practical impact of imposing on your life (though not an unconstitutional intrusion, of course, they'd make that distinction in a 120-page opinion). Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 04:52 PM. |
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You'd need a few more holdouts than that to avoid a constitutional amendment, but maybe. I'm not so convinced. If their entire existence wasn't based on protecting their way of life and fighting the federal government, they actually may have come along faster. Neighboring countries in Western Europe have generally made progress together. How is such a thing possible if nobody will ever change unless we make them? Now, if the UK had to tell Sweden what to do every step along the way, Sweden would probably be as mean-spirited and surly as Alabama today. People hate the feeling of not having self-determination even more than they hate gays. Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 05:06 PM. |
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Well, you have to look at the time when those amendments were put into place and how they are balanced against other related amendments. There was clearly a need to have those put into place. The constitution is not a perfect document and sometimes things need to be changed to make up for a short coming that crops up from time to time. That's not a bad thing (not that you said it was bad) and I think that speaks more to it being a strength rather than a weakness in our constitution and I don't think it's arbitrary when it comes to discrimination of any kind, race, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, rich, poor, etc...Just my opinion though.
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Or to put it another way, if your opinions of:
"This should be a right" and "The 14th amendment guarantees this as a right", are 100% identical in all circumstances, then I don't think you're looking at this sincerely. And if they are, the constitution is completely redundant, isn't it? We don't need it. We can just say, openly, that the president gets to appoint justices who, based on their own personal opinions, get to say what rights everyone has and doesn't have. We could call them the "Supreme Court of Rights". Maybe that's a good system, I don't know, but can anyone admit that this is our system? Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 05:12 PM. |
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And the 4th Amendment is about tax collectors. Since it wasn't about police searches, should we not have a right to privacy from them? Should we be forced to let them search our homes on a daily basis to make sure nothing illegal is going on? I mean if an Amendment can only be used for what it was originally intended for, you must be for all forms of searches without a warrant unless it's for tax collecting.
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If that happened, I'm sure someone would read a fundamental right to marry into the constitution. It's somewhere near the "right to privacy". And didn't the Supreme Court already shoot down this strategy? Shutting down the schools isn't a legal way of preventing integration. Last edited by molson : 11-03-2010 at 05:29 PM. |
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What the hell are these "State's rights" that everyone keeps talking about. Must be some commie athiest fundamentalist fascist notion.
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We'll find out pretty quick if they are for real with their rhetoric. Big vote will come on the debt ceiling and we'll see where their balls are at then. While they talked about it, I guarantee that not a single one of them will filibuster it.
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I don't think Trippi can really be blamed for Gary Hart, who would have probably won (both the primary and the general) if not for the scandal. 1984 was unwinnable no matter what strategy was used. He was pretty instrumental in making Dean from a nobody into the frontrunner, but did receive some blame for the Iowa failure and was fired shortly thereafter.
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