Re: Court: CA Gay Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional

Should a married gay couple in Massachusetts have hospital visitation
rights as a spouse, be able to file taxes jointly, and get spousal
benefits upon death?

On Feb 8, 8:30 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Proposition 8, nor any of the other state initiatives that I am familiar
> with, are not attempting to treat "different classes of people,
> differently".  What the legislation similar to Prop 8 and others are
> attempting to do,  is to prohibit individuals from carving out more rights,
> additional privileges,  "Special Rights"  if you will,  from State
> Constitutions and State Code, that other individuals.
>
> Currently,  any man or woman can marry any other man or woman  that they so
> choose to marry.   No law prohibits that;  e.g.;  any man can go and marry
> any woman,  or any woman can go and marry any man, as is the definition of
> "Marriage".   What the militant, secularist Gay agenda is attempting to do,
> is to carve out additional rights and privileges, by allowing certain
> individuals to redefine "marriage",  thereby giving special rights and
> privileges to a few people who claim that they want to "marry" within their
> gender.   That's not marriage,  from a legal standpoint, and it is clearly
> not marriage,  from an ecclesiastical standpoint.
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com>wrote:
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> > Government has no business in the marriage issue.
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> > You'll get no argument from me.  A dem gave us DOMA, and n now they
> > all spout about how terrible it is, and do NOTHING about it.
>
> > And yes, there are rights attached to marriage, from taxes to
> > hospitals to death.
>
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