It's like a line in the sand, sort of
Verbal Jazz has a neat idea: the Constitution is too permissive, let's rewrite it so as to deny rights to citizens in a desperate appeal for moral "clarity." Let's get one thing straight here: sending troops to die in a war to remove a brutal dictator leaving a power vacuum which has spawned the kind of terrorism that we sought to eliminate is an issue that requires moral clarity, allowing people the right to define themselves as a family should be fairly simple.
What the President wants proposes the Constitution to do is narrowly define the meaning of marriage. Even the definition of marriage as that "between a man and a woman" can be open to interpretation: are hermaphrodites allowed to marry themselves, or not to marry at all? Do those who have had the reproductive organs removed qualify (lose your testes, lose your marriage license?) The likelihood of such an amendment passing seems very small right now, but it could happen if enough Democrats decide they don't want to be labeled the "Party of Gay Marriage." Should an amendment pass, Verbal Jazz proposes that we then go through every single amendment to narrowly define such items as "well regulated militia" as an "efficient" army and "unreasonable searches and seizures" as those without reason.
Verbal Jazz even respects the reluctance of people to attend gay weddings. Hey, that's your choice, but don't go around explicitly denying someone their rights. To paraphrase Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) If we restrict gay marriages, we'll then move on to restricting couples into BDSM (Quick! Ban the bondage queens from marriage!), anyone who has ever had a sexually transmitted disease (Away from the altar thou unclean whore) and then any woman who is not a virgin will be restricted from going to the altar.
Allowing freedoms will always allow for a bit of discomfort. Verbal Jazz is not exactly comfortable with allowing white supremacists to breed (and potentially create more white supremacists). In fact, Verbal Jazz has problems with lots of people who breed, including the wealthy, politicians, the poor and anyone with an utter lack of irony, but the government has no business defining who can breed and certainly no business defining marriage along the lines of a religious sacrament. Let the churches decide to define marriage as a sacrament between a man and a woman and let us all accept the unions of those who aspire to be a family.
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Verbal Jazz has a neat idea: the Constitution is too permissive, let's rewrite it so as to deny rights to citizens in a desperate appeal for moral "clarity." Let's get one thing straight here: sending troops to die in a war to remove a brutal dictator leaving a power vacuum which has spawned the kind of terrorism that we sought to eliminate is an issue that requires moral clarity, allowing people the right to define themselves as a family should be fairly simple.
What the President wants proposes the Constitution to do is narrowly define the meaning of marriage. Even the definition of marriage as that "between a man and a woman" can be open to interpretation: are hermaphrodites allowed to marry themselves, or not to marry at all? Do those who have had the reproductive organs removed qualify (lose your testes, lose your marriage license?) The likelihood of such an amendment passing seems very small right now, but it could happen if enough Democrats decide they don't want to be labeled the "Party of Gay Marriage." Should an amendment pass, Verbal Jazz proposes that we then go through every single amendment to narrowly define such items as "well regulated militia" as an "efficient" army and "unreasonable searches and seizures" as those without reason.
Verbal Jazz even respects the reluctance of people to attend gay weddings. Hey, that's your choice, but don't go around explicitly denying someone their rights. To paraphrase Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) If we restrict gay marriages, we'll then move on to restricting couples into BDSM (Quick! Ban the bondage queens from marriage!), anyone who has ever had a sexually transmitted disease (Away from the altar thou unclean whore) and then any woman who is not a virgin will be restricted from going to the altar.
Allowing freedoms will always allow for a bit of discomfort. Verbal Jazz is not exactly comfortable with allowing white supremacists to breed (and potentially create more white supremacists). In fact, Verbal Jazz has problems with lots of people who breed, including the wealthy, politicians, the poor and anyone with an utter lack of irony, but the government has no business defining who can breed and certainly no business defining marriage along the lines of a religious sacrament. Let the churches decide to define marriage as a sacrament between a man and a woman and let us all accept the unions of those who aspire to be a family.
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