Quote: (09-03-2015 02:26 PM)General Stalin Wrote:
At best she failed to do her job, at worst she abused her position of authority to deny people their rights. Punishment fits the crime.
Quote: (09-03-2015 08:58 PM)ordinaryleastsquared Wrote:
People of all sexual orientations should be granted equal treatment under the law, and due to a unfortunate intertwining of church and state, marriage falls under this category.
Marriage is social recognition. Freedom of association is a right. These are separate things.
I'll have to repeat this again like a broken record, since it seems to bounce off the plate iron around some people's heads. Countries and states which provided all the rights that men and women have under marriage, to gays in the form of 'civil union', did not stop gay marriage campaigners as a result. They didn't even pause, and for a very obvious reason. Gay marriage is an ideological and social imposition; it is a forcible demand that people recognize a gay relationship as being equal to a marriage.
Social recognition of your relationship is NOT a right.