But same sex marriage would destroy the institution

painting yourself into a corner.....thus, there is no need to look for this mythical "proper venue".....it would be here, now.....the fact that no such law suit has been commenced or won shows that there is no violation.....

That's ridiculous. Is it your contention that there were no violations prior to Loving v Virginia? Just because the court has not yet found something in violation of the Constitution does not mean it is not in violation of the Constitution.

It certainly does not invalidate raising the argument that an action violates the Constitution or provide any defense against such arguments. That principle would dismiss any claim, immediately and without any consideration. That's not how the system works or how it was intended to work.
 
agreed....that's why there are no longer laws against bi-racial marriage...

if the same were true regarding same sex marriage the law suit would already have been won......

That's circular logic and totally contradictory. If the same were true prior to Loving v Virginia (as you claim to agree) the lawsuit would have already been won before that case.

The courts have simply evaded the matter to this point. They certainly have not made any rulings that have settled the matter in favor of discrimination in marriage. They often wait until a tipping point is reached among the will of the masses before hearing such cases.
 
Further, it is possibly counter-productive to bring a case before it's time as it might result in a precedent setting ruling that just increases the hurdle.

The courts do not completely ignore the masses. They cannot and should not. They just don't have to have as much concern for that force.

No one brought a case invalidating interracial marriage laws immediately following the 14th because it would have failed and set a legal precedent counter productive to the cause. It took almost 100 years before a case was brought to overturn the violations.

You don't seem to have much understanding of common law or how and why it works so well.
 
irrelevant question.....in both states where legal action was commenced to legitimize gay "marriage" the law already extended the same benefits to both marriage and civil unions......that approach was rejected by gays who demanded more than simply the extension of the same benefits....

And why should their civil rights be hindered, at the behest of the hetrosexuals?
 
/shrugs you can repeat your argument all you want, it won't change it into a correct argument....the definition of marriage did not change at that time....

OH YES IT DID.

Since you and others want to continue to repeat the argument that society dictates what is acceptable or not, you might want to re-educate yourself on the society considered to be NORMAL at that time in our history.
 
painting yourself into a corner.....thus, there is no need to look for this mythical "proper venue".....it would be here, now.....the fact that no such law suit has been commenced or won shows that there is no violation.....

And again; you seem to be suggesting that before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of mixed marriages, that there were no civil rights violations up to that time, regarding mixed marriages.
 
agreed....that's why there are no longer laws against bi-racial marriage...

if the same were true regarding same sex marriage the law suit would already have been won......

Anti-miscegenation laws, also known as miscegenation laws, were laws that banned interracial marriage and sometimes sex between members of two different races. In the United States, interracial marriage, cohabitation and sex have since 1863 been termed "miscegenation." Contemporary usage of the term "miscegenation" is less frequent. In North America, laws against interracial marriage and interracial sex existed and were enforced in the Thirteen Colonies from the late seventeenth century onwards, and subsequently in several US states and US territories until 1967.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws

The civil war ended in 1865, so let's see.
1865 to 1976 is 111 years and that's how long it took before same sex marriages were determined to be legal, nation wide.
So why are you trying to say that because a ruling hasn't been made on same sex marriages, it must mean that the civil rights violations are OK??
 
the only "equal" they will settle for is acceptance....they have no right to my acceptance, nor should they have the power to force it.....

You can rant and rave against it all you want, just like certain segments of society still won't accept mixed marriages; but soon the rest of the civilized States will recognize and accept same sex marriages.
 
Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
Whoops, you'd be right to say that I didn't respond to that post. My error! As to your typical supposition as to my argument, that's just more of your inane posturing. So in the interest of fairness, let's see what you got.

- you stated that "There is no need to repeat everything that has been said in each and every post." However, given your penchant to revise the content of what I previous wrote and to falsely categorize what exactly transpired, I see no other option in order for the reader to get a true version.

You can "roll your eyes" all you want.....but given the chronology of the posts, the objective reader sees my point regardless whether you admit your ploys or not.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
- I wrote, "Anyone can think bad thoughts, ENFORCING THEM against someone requires a person to be able to PHYSICALLY IDENTIFY THE OBJECT OF THEIR PREJUDICE TO ACTIVELY DISCRIMINATE. Unless of course, you know of people perpetuating the Vulcan mind meld. Your repeating your illogical stance is irrelevant."

Your response: A bigot needs to know the person is a member of the group he/she wishes to persecute in order to persecute them in a discriminatory way, yes. They don't need to be able to identify them through visual information alone. Your point that being black is usually obvious through sight alone does not mean that discrimination based on things that might not be obvious visually is somehow not discrimination or less discriminatory."

Exactly, any response?

Evidently there was, and you didn't like it. Hence your childish snide remarks.


Taichiliberal Quote:
I underlined the sentence that best demonstrates your willfull ignorance and/or revisionist idea of what black folk went through in America in their quest for equality. THEY WERE OVERWHELMINGLY IDENTIFIED BY PHYSICAL FEATURES INDICATIVE TO PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. Only in a small fraction of cases were inter-racial sex (VERY small open marriages) in some areas produced a population were "mulattoes" or "creoles" or "high yellahs" were ALLOWED to existence in a quasi-human being/citizen state for the sake of commerce could you make the argument of comparison to gay civil rights struggle. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, RACE DETERMINED BY PHYSICAL FEATURES (i.e., black skin) WAS THE FINAL GRADIENT FOR 3 CENTURIES THAT AFFECTED MILLIONS OF AFRICAN DESCENDED PEOPLE....AND LAST TIME I CHECKED, HOMOSEXUALITY DID NOT CONSTITUTE A RACE. That is the erroneous comparison used continually by gay rights folk...that is what YOU are desperately trying to avoid and cloud over. That is what you are failing to achieve.

Yeah, they could most often be identified by sight. So? The point is it is not necessary to identify the target by sight in order for discrimination to be present. You are still NOT responding. You just continue to repeat your stupid assertion and shower us with what you seem to think are fantastic insights, like homosexuals are not a race. Really! Wow, thanks for the info.

Why don't you grow up and be honest for a change? Here's what YOU wrote: "They don't need to be able to identify them through visual information alone."

You keep trying to IGNORE or DOWNPLAY THE FACT that the history of discrimintion against black Americans WAS EXACTLY THAT....VISUAL IDENTIFICATION. You keep stating a moot point that discrimination IN GENERAL doesnt' require visual identification. No shit sherlock, BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT I'VE BEEN MAKING. Gay folk for the most part cannot be physically identified..and they are NOT a race or ethnic group. So their comparison to black civil rights movement is INCORRECT IN TWO MAJOR ASPECTS.

I noted that you avoided my point regarding the black man who is also gay. That is A-typical of the cowardly and dishonest attitude that some gay advocates take when one of their talking points is disproved....they just ignore what they don't like and continuing to repeat their false assertions and allegations.


Taichiliberal Quote:
- You wrote "Are you arguing that discrimination based on religion or caste is not discrimination? What about discrimination against ethnic groups where membership in the targeted group is not obvious?"

You throw this in as a typical dodge to avoid dealing with my logical explanation of the flaw in your assertion that gay civil rights movement is an on-par comparison to black civil rights movement. To ease your fevered brow, I'm NOT arguing about religion or caste, and dicrimination against ethnic groups requires one to acknowledge a RACIAL and not a SEXUAL bias. ANYONE CAN BE GAY, but NOT everyone can be Polish, or Puerto Rican or Serbian or Irish or Maltese, etc., etc. Those are ethnic derivatives of RACES. Nothing "chickenshit" about that....but you sure as hell want to pretend there is no difference.

It's not a dodge. It is an illustration of the point you continue to dodge.
You can't reliably tell a person is Polish by sight.

Again, yes there are differences. The visual identification is a difference, just a completely irrelevant one to the question of whether discrimination exists. Discrimination is discrimination whether you can see see the person is a target or because you base it on knowledge that their name ends in "ski."

Now you're just being stubborn to the point of insipidness by just repeating your false accusation and trying to defend your flawed assertion. Pay attention: ETHNIC IDENTIFICATION AMONG A RACE OF PEOPLE IS NOT THE SAME AS SEXUAL IDENTITY OF PEOPLE IN GENERAL. Homosexuality is NOT indicative of one particular ethnic group or race. You can't tell if a black guy is gay, but 99 and 44/100% of the time you sure as hell can tell if he's black. Therefore the history of discrimination against the black guy is a hell of a lot different than that against homosexuals...and to make a general comparsion as if that fact doesn't exist is disingenuous at best.


Taichiliberal Quote:
- You wrote, "It is ignorant to claim that discrimination must be based on information gained through sight alone. You are apparently confusing racism and discrimination as being the same thing."

Actually, you've just described YOUR insipid argument. YOU are the one that keeps trying to say that being discriminated against because you are black is the same or similar as being discriminated against for being gay. That is just plain dumb on your part...and if you don't believe me ask any gay black guy who gets pulled over for "driving while black"....and then gets beat up by a bunch of black guys for being scene coming out of a gay bar. To versions of discrimination....BUT FOR DIFFERENT REASONS (if you don't get it yet, here's a hint: the cop didn't know the black guy was gay). Get it together String...you tripping over your own bullshit.

You just gave a valid comparison of discrimination against blacks and gays and how they may be similar. Nobody is arguing they are exactly the same. If that is your point then it is about as insightful as your point that homosexuals are not a race and the only response is, "no shit, Sherlock."

They are not identical but they are certainly comparable.

Again, I'm just pointing out the flaws in the comparisons.....YOU were first trying to either dismiss my valid point or prove it totally incorrect, and now instead of just saying that I was RIGHT, you try to falsely portray that I stated there was NO level of comparison. Go back and read the exchanges.....I stated at Least once that civil rights struggles for equal rights have a general comparison....it's the SPECIFICS that are to be corrected and kept honest. That's the problem with gay right's advocates.....they perceive ANY criticism of their talking points, no matter how valid,as homophobic backlash.

Honesty, String.....work on it. My job is done here.
 
You ignorantly seem to think the method of target identification must be identical before any comparison can be made between different forms of discrimination. That is just stupid. That's why they are labeled discrimination, duh. Of course, comparisons can be drawn between them. They are not identical, just similar.

What's stupid is that you think your lying about what I write isn't painfully obvious in all previous posts. I pointed out why prejudice against a RACE of people is marketly different from prejudice against a persons sexual orientation. All forms of discrimination share common traits. Yeah, they're being discriminated against....it's the REASONS and METHODS of discrimination that makes the difference. I never claimed there was a general commonality....it's the comparative mantras by the gay advocates that is WRONG. Whether you accept that or not is irrelevent.

I honestly do not see why you believe that is relevant unless you mean to say gay people can go back in the closet. Never said that and I defy you to produce the quote where I did. You perceive any criticism of the gay advocacy platform as homophobic backlash, and you respond accordingly. Your preconceived attitude clouds your ability to comprehend what you read. It would not have been okay to beat up black people even if they could have hid or blended into society.

No shit sherlock....yet again you avoid the logical point of my example.....black people get pulled over by bigoted cops for driving an expensive car through a predominantly neighborhood because they are black...NOT becase they are gay. That's RACISM, something homosexuals don't experience UNLESS they happen to be part of the target race. So a comparison of gay civil rights to black civil rights is NOT the same...VERY different and similar only in the most basic...somone is being discriminated against (which can be for ANY reason).
 
Taichiliberal wrote:

They are TWO DISTINCT STRUGGLES FOR TWO DISTINCT DIFFERENT REASONS. What seems to piss you off is that I point out that distinction, which renders a popular talking point by gay activists useless. Tough donuts.

You just responded to my statement that they are different, ditsyliberal. Everyone knows that. It's not the ground breaking insight that you believe it is. And you continue to dodge the question of, so fucking what?

You're a liar (or fucking stupid)..and the chronology of the posts shows that. YOU kept trying to dismiss my point that the gay advocates were NOT acknowledging the difference and were instead making direct comparsions. Now instead of just admitting I was right, you try to pretend THAT YOU WERE SAYING THE SAME THING I DID...and we both know that is NOT the case. Grow the fuck up, String. Admitting you're wrong won't kill you, and in this instance it doesn't destroy the gay rights movement.

I said I view the struggle for civil rights as one movement but it started before this country was born. Our courts view it the same way. That does not mean they are not also separate and distinct struggles. But they are without any doubt interconnected as the arguments have been applied from one to another. That is our system of common law. If the federal courts hear any cases they will certainly draw comparisons between the two as I am certain the state courts who have overturned marriage laws did.

Nice little speech on a moot point.....doesn't change my point ONE iota. Gay advocates were making a bad comparison point and I called them on it. You don't like it, and in a knee jerk reaction you treated a simple acknowledgement of historical fact as an attack on gay civil rights movement. Relax, I'm doing nothing of the sort, as I've previously stated numerous times...just keeping the record straight (no pun intended).


Taichiliberal Quote:
So you're either you don't comprehend what you read or you're a liar. I NEVER cited that blacks suffering more was why gay rights advocates are wrong in comparing their struggle to black folks. If you can provide a quote to that effect, then produce it. If not, then stop being dishonest in this discussion and stick to the FACTS.

You said the two were not comparable and then went into history of the suffering of blacks. #248. If that isn't your point then what is?

I NEVER cited that blacks suffering more was why gay rights advocates are wrong in comparing their struggle to black folks. Again, WHAT SENTENCE OR QUOTE STATES EXACTLY WHAT YOU ACCUSE ME OF? I'm not interested in your opinion, supposition or conjecture.

Grow the fuck up, String.
 
the only "equal" they will settle for is acceptance....they have no right to my acceptance, nor should they have the power to force it.....

I don't think they give a damn about your acceptance. It is the acceptance of the gov't, in the form of the 1,400 + benefits given top married couples, that they are after.
 
Why do you want to harm society?

Your ego is astounding. You are challenged to tell us how society will be harmed by allowing gays to marry. There is no legitimate reason to deny them, except your own bigotry, and you still repeat the same inane question.

We get that you think gay sex is icky. But it has no bearing here.
 
You can "roll your eyes" all you want.....but given the chronology of the posts, the objective reader sees my point regardless whether you admit your ploys or not.

:rolleyes:

Learn to use the quotes, ditzyliberal, and one could follow the thread easily. You have not shown one damn instance of where I distorted any chronology. You don't need to repost everything that has been previously stated in each and every thread and I grow tired of fixing your messes. Your butchering of the posts only makes the thread as convoluted as your political views.

Why don't you grow up and be honest for a change? Here's what YOU wrote: "They don't need to be able to identify them through visual information alone."

You keep trying to IGNORE or DOWNPLAY THE FACT that the history of discrimintion against black Americans WAS EXACTLY THAT....VISUAL IDENTIFICATION. You keep stating a moot point that discrimination IN GENERAL doesnt' require visual identification. No shit sherlock, BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT I'VE BEEN MAKING. Gay folk for the most part cannot be physically identified..and they are NOT a race or ethnic group. So their comparison to black civil rights movement is INCORRECT IN TWO MAJOR ASPECTS.

It does not make their comparison invalid. It simply makes them different. The method of target identification is not an essential to discrimination. Therefore, they share many similiarties which is why they are both labeled discrimination, duh. One can compare those many similiarities.

I noted that you avoided my point regarding the black man who is also gay. That is A-typical of the cowardly and dishonest attitude that some gay advocates take when one of their talking points is disproved....they just ignore what they don't like and continuing to repeat their false assertions and allegations.

I did not ignore anything. I responded that you have just compared two different forms of discrimination and shown them to be similar.

You throw this in as a typical dodge to avoid dealing with my logical explanation of the flaw in your assertion that gay civil rights movement is an on-par comparison to black civil rights movement. To ease your fevered brow, I'm NOT arguing about religion or caste, and dicrimination against ethnic groups requires one to acknowledge a RACIAL and not a SEXUAL bias. ANYONE CAN BE GAY, but NOT everyone can be Polish, or Puerto Rican or Serbian or Irish or Maltese, etc., etc. Those are ethnic derivatives of RACES. Nothing "chickenshit" about that....but you sure as hell want to pretend there is no difference.

I throw this in to show that your point of target identification is irrelevant to the determination of whether discrimination exists or whether it violates the rights of others. YOU ARE STILL EVADING. Everyone can be Catholic.

The rest is just more of you repeating your irrelevant statements and failing to answer why it matters. I never denied that a black person is more easily identified than a gay person. It is obviously true to anybody with vision. So? That's not a huge insight, ditzyliberal. Did you think we did not know this or your other gems, gays are not a race?

If your point is that the ease with which being black is identifiable lead to a greater pervasiveness in the discrimination... Again, yep. Gays don't have it that bad. While I believe they should be free to be who they are, I would certainly rather be discriminated based on something that I could escape briefly, through obscuring. That does not justify the discrimination and gays should not have to be closeted.

My argument has never been with the factual parts of your point. My argument has been with why you think it is relevant or makes comparisons between the similarities in the forms of discrimination invalid. It does not.
 
People can start their own religions in this nation---did you know that? How about gays just start their own religion, and marry eachother if they want---instead of forcing another religion with a different value system to cater to you?
 
That's ridiculous. Is it your contention that there were no violations prior to Loving v Virginia? Just because the court has not yet found something in violation of the Constitution does not mean it is not in violation of the Constitution.

It certainly does not invalidate raising the argument that an action violates the Constitution or provide any defense against such arguments. That principle would dismiss any claim, immediately and without any consideration. That's not how the system works or how it was intended to work.

yes, there were violations prior to Loving.....but there are no violations now.....
 
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