Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:00:06 -0500, strabo wrote:
>
>> Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
>>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:38:36 -0800, Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>
>>> You're in the Army? ------------------------^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>>> On Nov 6, 8:25 pm, Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:52:30 +0000, Californians With Common Sense
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Proposition 8 is irrelevant. No law trumps the 14th Amendment.
>>>> We all know that those fourth amendment authors were REALLY
>>>> after legal recognition of same-. "marriage", RIGHT?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>> Read carefully for content and implications. The 14th Amendment is
>>> called "The Equal Rights Amendment" because it mandates that all
>>> Americans be treated equally. It eliminated a host of barriers such as
>>> "Equal But Separate" and artificial restrictions preventing blacks their
>>> equal right to vote.
>>>
>>> Giving hetro.uals legal and monetary privileges denied to homo.uals
>>> is unequal treatment. The 14th Amendment makes that illegal.
>>>
>>>
>> The license to marry is not a privilege. It is granted on the basis of
>> request and does not discriminate by race, . or creed.
>
> The issue is not "marriage". The issue is equal rights. Either give
> homo.uals the same rights that you and I enjoy
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