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icelightning) wrote2009-04-06 11:23 pm
icelightning) wrote2009-04-06 11:23 pm
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ARGH
In response to this, especially the last paragraph:
If your main/only reason for voting against same-sex marriage is religious beliefs--specifically that marriage is between a man and a woman--you are, in fact, violating the first Amendment to the Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Religion should have nothing to do with a Civil marriage. If you don't want a same-sex couple marrying in your church, fine. Couples can take their money elsewhere.
If your main/only reason for voting against same-sex marriage is religious beliefs--specifically that marriage is between a man and a woman--you are, in fact, violating the first Amendment to the Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Religion should have nothing to do with a Civil marriage. If you don't want a same-sex couple marrying in your church, fine. Couples can take their money elsewhere.
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Sadly if you ask many of these people who are protecting the 'sanctity' of marriage (as if 'sanctity' has any place in a court of earthly law fffrofl) about whether the Constitution is SET IN STONE or leaves wriggle room, you will probably find a lot of them clinging to the former. CONTRADICTION MUCH.
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Yeah, they just... don't make sense....