Thread: Supreme Court: Same-sex couples can marry in all 50 states

In my opinion, you're wrong, Judy. Homosexual marriage and homosexuality are moral issues. As such, these issues are spoken to in the Bill of Rights 10th Amendment. As such, decisions on these issues are reserved for the people and states, not the Federal Government.

Judy wrote:

MW, I think you're one of the folks who believe your rights are handed out to you by government.

Actually, the way I see it, it's you that is thinking more along those lines.

Judy wrote:

If you'll notice, there is no mention of marriage at all, of any type in the US Constitution. Marriage wasn't even a government issue when the US Constitution was adopted, but marriage is a right, a natural right, an inalienable right, to partner up and have a life together, something humans have been doing for millions of years without government I might add and something Americans have been doing without government since there was an America until 1829 when some states started issuing marriage licenses, so Americans had been hitching up for hundreds of years in our colonies and then our nation without any aid or involvement from government.

Homosexuals have the right to marry ..... nobody is denying that. However, the U.S. Constitution does not give them the right to marry someone of the same gender. The U. S. Constitution does not cover issues of morality or personal behavior, that is why the issue falls under the 10 Amendment to the Bill of Rights.

Text of the 10th Amendment

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

It is not the U.S. Supreme Courts job to legislate, which they've clearly done in this case. Homosexual marriage is an issue that should be left specifically to the individual states.

ReformUSA2012 wrote:

Here is the thing. Equal protection or basically having access to the exact same thing as anyone else. This is what I see as the flaw in your way of thinking. The *Equal Protection* or Equal Treatment would mean they don't just have access to the same thing everyone else has but also in the same manner. I see it as everyone has the right to marry someone of legal age of the opposite sex. Any man can marry any woman and vice versa. No one is denied the right to marry but its defined as being equal in how its used.

So *Marriage* itself is not the *Equal Protection* but *Marriage to a qualifying adult* which would be *equal treatment*.

IMHO, you nailed it.