Article View: cu.motss
Article #125Re: The Case for Gay Marriage - The Nation
From: J. Scott
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:00
21 lines
2082 bytes
2082 bytes
jgauvin@symbios.com (Jeff Gauvin) wrote: [...] snip >Personally, I'd be much happier if/when religion (or the more secular term >"morality") is no longer a basis for laws, but we've got a long way to go! >On the other hand, should a person forsake all his/her beliefs when he/she >enters the voting booth? "Well, I'm personally opposed to XXX, but since that >is a moral issue not a legal one, I must vote for it." I think most people >would have a hard time with this. IMHO, yes, that is exactly what people should be doing. Your rights end where my nose begins. Any legislation that has nothing but religious reasons for it should be unconstitutional. It is unfortunate that there are already so many, many such laws on the books. - Scott
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<4q57st$ljm@cactus.verinet.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<Pine.GSO.3.93.960613093431.647B-100000@spot.Colorado.EDU> <jgauvin.434.010E0E7B@symbios.com> <31c17fc1.44899013@news.cyberramp.net> <jgauvin.438.006D8992@symbios.com> <31C1AA86.58A322A8@csn.net> <jgauvin.439.004FC25E@symbios.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108be9,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid108be9,public X-Google-Thread: 10be61,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid10be61,public X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 10bb69,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb69,public X-Google-Thread: 1026d8,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid1026d8,public X-Google-Thread: f49ec,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gidf49ec,public X-Google-Thread: f744b,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gidf744b,public X-Google-Thread: 12ce57,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid12ce57,public From: jscott@verinet.com (J. Scott ) Subject: Re: The Case for Gay Marriage - The Nation Date: 1996/06/18 Message-ID: <4q57st$ljm@cactus.verinet.com> X-Deja-AN: 160743046 references: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960613093431.647B-100000@spot.Colorado.EDU> <jgauvin.434.010E0E7B@symbios.com> <31c17fc1.44899013@news.cyberramp.net> <jgauvin.438.006D8992@symbios.com> <31C1AA86.58A322A8@csn.net> <jgauvin.439.004FC25E@symbios.com> organization: Verinet Communications reply-to: jscott@verinet.com newsgroups: cu.motss,co.politics,boulder.general,co.general,soc.motss,co.politics.amend2.discuss,alt.politics.homosexuality,alt.homosexual