I have mixed feelings over the California Supreme Court hearing arguments about the validity of Proposition 8 passing. I'll start by saying I see nothing wrong with gay couples getting married. Two people willing to make the commitment of marriage is what matters. If they happen to be the same sex who cares? I sure don't. All I see is two people who want to spend their lives together. How can I or anyone else tell them it is wrong. I just want to be honest where my thoughts are. Back to Proposition 8. The people voted and decided that the constitution of California would limit marriage to only opposite-sex couples.
Agree or not that was what the majority of people in California voted for. Now people are challenging that result before the Supreme Court of California. When I first heard that I was upset. While I disagree with the outcome of the election I felt that the people had chosen so that was the law. If you don't like it then gather signatures and put it on the ballot again. This article made me think again. What is an inalienable right? Do people have the right to take away inalienable rights? What if a state decided to vote to start slavery again? Yes, that is extreme but where do we draw the line. How do we decide when it is ok for one group of people to limit the rights of other group? Isn't that really what government is for? To defend and protect the rights of its people? All of them.
Let's be honest here. What real harm comes from two people of the same sex getting married? How does that hurt America? Two people who love each other and want to spend their lives together. Two people who pay taxes and are part of our community. I see the high rate of divorce among opposite sex couples. Why not embrace couples who want to get married? Who cares what sex they are or who they love? I hope the Supreme Court of California rules in favor of same sex marriage and we use that ruling to get a Federal ruling on the issue. Marrying someone you love should be an inalienable right. Whether that person is the same religion, race, or sex should not matter. All that matters is whether they love each other enough to make the commitment to say I do.
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i think we have to look at what it means to have a right. rights are granted by the government. the government is the one that allows and disallows behavior or actions.
for there to be inalienable rights means that these are 'rights' that are unable to be taken away. that they are, in some way, universal to every person. that they 'ought' to be recognized by everyone...however are they?
if the government were to silence given ideas, thoughts, speech; this would then violate our first amendment rights. and action could be taken. however; if there are such things as inalienable rights (provided that free speech can be considered this), then couldn't we take action against those governments that violate this?
that these 'rights' are innate...and if so, how? how were we granted these rights? where did they come from? and again...why is it that not everyone abides by these 'given' rights?
i do agree though...government ought to take care of all its citizens, and to their protection. as a unity. i do believe that this becomes a form of discrimination. we are excluding a given portion of our citizenship. can we say segregation? it is the same thing. the government is excluding a portion of the population. plain and simple...
I agree that rights are given to us by the government or society as a whole. In that sense we really don't have any inalienable rights. What we do have are a list of what we feel should be our basic rights. Thomas Jefferson wrote that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights including Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Yes, I left out the Creator part since I don't believe in that. I do believe though we have founded this country on the idea that we do have basic rights that should not be taken away. We as a people gave our government the power to enforce these rights. And this is a case where the government should step in and defend the right of its people to marry whomever they choose.
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