Marriage: A Supreme Test of Rights

When did the definition of marriage changed?

"you mean you want the definition of marriage to change. why should it?"

The definition has already been changed in 9 states and D.C. The federal government discriminates against gay couples when they treat their legal (in their state) marriages differently than any other marriages. The federal government should not be in the business of only recognizing some legal marriages while discriminating against other legal marriages. Your side is going to lose on this issue.

you mean you want the definition of marriage to change. why should it? the government defines and regulates many different types of human relationships. the relationship of two male friends is nothing like the marital bond. if a person cannot see the difference between the relationship that exists between two male friends and the relationship that exists between a man and a woman who desire to procreate and raise children, he or she needs his or her head examined because it is obviously not working like it is intended to work.

re-defining marriage has NOTHING to do with homosexuals. it is all about people who hate the idea that the government encourages stable relationships for the procreation and raising of children.

Certain states have changed it but overall it still remains the same.

DOug, the thrust of this point isn't race. This is about the nature of an argument. The rejected argument against inter-racial marriage is exactly the same as teh argument advanced against gay marriage. The argument is wrong regardless of the topic.

Al Sharpton (2004): "I think it is not an issue any more of just marriage. This is an issue of human rights. And I think it is dangerous to give states the right to deal with human rights questions. That's how we ended up with slavery and segregation going forward a long time. I, under no circumstances, believe we ought to give states rights to gay and lesbians' human rights. Whatever my personal feelings may be about gay and lesbian marriages, unless you are prepared to say gays and lesbians are not human beings, they should have the same constitutional right of any other human being."

The first 2 presidential candidates to publicly support same-sex marriage were black.

Carol Mosley Braun in 2003: "We must do everything possible to support families - including lesbian and gay families. All of us - regardless of sexual orientation - stand to benefit from equal marriage rights because stable families strengthen our communities and neighborhoods.

Nobody should be penalized for loving a same-sex partner. In the same way that legal discrimination against interracial partners was wrong, discrimination against same-sex couples is wrong."

And yet the definition of marriage changed.

And surely you are aware that the approval of black people is not necessary for the two things to be similar.

And regardless of what bills were ever passed on inter-racial marriage, the definition of marriage still remained "one man and one woman". So, that arguement doesn't hold much water either.

We certainly aren't and the idea is ridiculous.

Blacks are not amused by talk of equating homosexual issues with civil rights issues.