[QUOTE="Ring_of_fire"][QUOTE="Silenthps"]Nope. Gays shouldn't have the special right to change the deffinition of a word that was not intended for them to use. Silenthps
Romer V Evans.
That case was about Colorado's Admendment 2, which basically stated it's perfectly fine for homosexuals to be discriminated against without any possibility of a lawsuit, which was struck down by the supreme court. Justice Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion and this was about "Special rights":
To the contrary, the amendment imposes a special disability upon those persons alone. Homosexuals are forbidden the safeguards that others enjoy or may seek without constraint
This case of gay marriage, It still applies. There is no instance of going after "Special rights" to get married, when straight couples can marry without a lot of problems
It's not about descrimination. Marriage is between man and woman. Both gays and non gays have that ability. If gays wanna have some kind of union, then call it something else. Don't destroy the meaning of a word that existed for thousands of years just becaue you dont like it. They were not there doing the creation of that word, they have no right to change it.This is a very bad analogy but idc. How would you like it if everyone changed the deffinition of chicken, to playstation3. I mean, it's kool if you and your friends wanna call it playstation 3 in your own private time. But when you legalize it and make it the official deffinition for the whole society to live by it, then its a diffrent case. People shouldn't have the right to do that.
The definition already has changed, just lookat a dictionary. Gays do have the right to marry in certain states and coutries, but saying gays have the right to marry a member of the opposite sex really isn't any different than saying "If a person of a certain race wants to marry, they can." back before interacial marriage was legal.
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