Supreme Court Decisions
I am glad that the Supreme Court sustained the legality of same-sex marriage across the country. It is my profound belief, based on the logic that marriage is a mutual choice between any two people who decide to unite their lives in love, that marriage should not be only allowed between persons of opposite sexes. Marriage is not purely for the purpose of sexual reproduction: if that were the case, then what of marriages between people of which at least one is infertile? Given that marriage is not purely for the purpose of sexual reproduction, then there is no logical reason to forbid it to same-sex couples.
I like the idea of same-sex marriages. Why should same-sex couples be denied the honorable resolution of their courtship in marriage?
Same-sex marriages do not devalue heterosexual marriages, because same-sex couples do not marry any more easily than to heterosexual ones. And there is no logical reason to assume that same sex couples somehow don't really mean it when they get married.
I am glad that America is moving beyond a purely religious view of marriage.
I am far less enthusiastic that the Supreme Court chose to uphold Obamacare. The law was passed unconstitutionally and altered unconstitutionally, and the very same logic being used to justify it (that it would cause disorder were it not to be upheld) could be used to uphold any irregularly-passed law. What is to prevent Obama, or more importantly his successors, from simply decreeing laws and the Supreme Court holding that we must treat them as properly-passed and constitutional simply because it would be inconvenient to end them?
I fear that in this decision, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the American Republic.
I like the idea of same-sex marriages. Why should same-sex couples be denied the honorable resolution of their courtship in marriage?
Same-sex marriages do not devalue heterosexual marriages, because same-sex couples do not marry any more easily than to heterosexual ones. And there is no logical reason to assume that same sex couples somehow don't really mean it when they get married.
I am glad that America is moving beyond a purely religious view of marriage.
I am far less enthusiastic that the Supreme Court chose to uphold Obamacare. The law was passed unconstitutionally and altered unconstitutionally, and the very same logic being used to justify it (that it would cause disorder were it not to be upheld) could be used to uphold any irregularly-passed law. What is to prevent Obama, or more importantly his successors, from simply decreeing laws and the Supreme Court holding that we must treat them as properly-passed and constitutional simply because it would be inconvenient to end them?
I fear that in this decision, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the American Republic.