Same Sex Marriage and 10 Commandments

Same Sex Marriage

Most Americans today oppose gay marriage. It is also true that in the 1950 South most Southerners opposed integration, the majority of Americans in 1850 opposed women's right to vote. In Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, it took the Supreme Court to uphold the rights of the minority to attend good, integrated schools. If the 14th Amendment and its' "Equal Protection Clause" did not protect gays from being discriminated against than it does not protect atheists from marrying Jews, Catholics marrying Baptists or blacks from marrying whites because that wasn't the intent of the writers of the 14th amendment originally.Do we want to take such a narrow view of the law and allow the states if they so wish, to determine who can marry? Do we want to be able to say to the short that they can't vote, to the skinny that they can't run for office?All would be allowable by the majority to implement with a limited view of "equal protection."? Unless there is an inherent harm in allowing equal protection, such as allowing brothers to marry sisters which would increase number of birth defects there is no reason to deny gays the right to marry. Aids would decrease under more stable gay relationships, another plus in its' favor. Our nation and government is made for all citizens: Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, atheists, men, women, gays, whites, blacks etc and should not just reflect just the religious beliefs of those who wish to implement their religious beliefs into law when there is no secular reason for that implementation. Our nation is a history of progress and an extension of rights and liberties, since its' beginning women, non-property owning men, blacks have gained the right to vote.Blacks and whites have gained the right to marry each other. Let's continue that progress forward and not hinder it.


10 Commandments:

I'm wondering how the removal of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama State Courthouse stops people from practicing their religion.Is something stopping them from putting the Ten Commandments up in churches? Indeed I have been to quite a few churches and rarely see this document on church walls, but people feel it is needed in public buildings? These public buildings are paid for by taxes by Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and atheists along with Christians; are the Christians in Alabama and throughout the United States willing to put documents of other religions in these buildings? When questioned, they usually answer no.They want their religion supported and encouraged in taxpayer supported buildings but don't want any other religion to have the same right. Is ours a Christian nation? Our Founding Fathers were dead set against people being forced to support other religions against their will through taxation.