Comments on: Equal Rights and Proposition 8

By: Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage — Wed, 01 May 2013 06:25:23 +0000

[...] As I explained in a previous post, no one has a right to get married. Although definitions of marriage vary, virtually all of them include an aspect of formal recognition of the union by someone else. You can’t really believe in a right to get married unless you believe in a right to dictate to others what to think. Put another way, claiming a right to marriage would be like claiming a right to the good opinion of those around you. It’s absurd. Let me add that under this reasoning, heterosexual couples don’t have a right to get married either. Since marriage involves recognition by others that a valid union has been formed, a marriage depends upon the consent of the person/people whose recognition is being sought. [...]

By: Law and Morality « infoRipple

Law and Morality « infoRipple — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:34:22 +0000

[...] by injecting the popular moral judgment of equality before the law into the gay marriage debate. See my previous post. The fact that the decision in Maine to deny marriage licenses to gay couples was a moral judgment [...]

By: Elise

Elise — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:42:38 +0000

“Since the only valid reason for government to recognize marriage at all is majoritarian moral judgment, it is irrational to bring an equal rights claim against the government’s use of majoritarian moral judgments as the distinguishing factor when deciding not to recognize homosexual marriage.”

I like that reasoning. Did you know that marriage only became a civil institution to stop blacks from marrying whites after the civil war? I actually haven’t referenced that, but I’ve heard it from a few people throughout the whole Prop 8 debate. Let me know if I’m spreading false information .

Also, in Mexico, the government doesn’t recognize Religious Marriage Ceremonies. Do you think that’s where we’re headed next?