One Judge vs 7 million votes

Takeda Shingen · 08-05-10, 04:03 PM

If mutual love and respect becomes a prequisite for marital union, then I imagine that at least half of the current marriages in the country will have to be immediately dissolved.

However, I applaud the court's decision. It is high time that homosexual couples were made to suffer just as their hertosexual counterparts.

krashkart · 08-05-10, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

If mutual love and respect becomes a prequisite for marital union, then I imagine that at least half of the current marriages in the country will have to be immediately dissolved.

Good points. I wasn't going after prerequisites, but I would certainly have to agree that a percentage of marriages would be considered illegal in such a case.

frau kaleun · 08-05-10, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

If mutual love and respect becomes a prequisite for marital union, then I imagine that at least half of the current marriages in the country will have to be immediately dissolved.

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Originally Posted by krashkart

Good points. I wasn't going after prerequisites, but I would certainly have to agree that a percentage of marriages would be considered illegal in such a case.

Good point, and it helps bring into focus the difference between a reason to get married and the right to get married.

I don't care why people marry each other as long as they do it by mutual consent (which implies mutual respect), with each person free to make an informed decision about it and for reasons that they themselves have agreed make marriage a desirable option.

Whether or not they have a right to get married has nothing to do with their reasons for wanting to do so, and IMO no list of presumed "acceptable reasons" put forward by anyone else should have any bearing on their right to do so.

Takeda Shingen · 08-05-10, 05:36 PM

I agree with you, Frau. My comments were just intended to be silly.

frau kaleun · 08-05-10, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I agree with you, Frau. My comments were just intended to be silly.

Duly noted.

FIREWALL · 08-06-10, 05:25 PM

Just tell me what a vote is good for if it can be overturned by one person.

frau kaleun · 08-06-10, 05:47 PM

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Just tell me what a vote is good for if it can be overturned by one person.

If a law is deemed unconstitutional by a duly appointed or elected member of the judiciary who has the legal authority to render such a decision, and to whom the matter has been brought for review, the number of votes cast in favor of it is irrelevant. It violates the already established law of the land, or denies some protection or right that the Constitution is understood to guarantee, and therefore cannot stand.

Any vote cast in favor of a law that is unconstitutional is worth precisely nothing in the long run. Checks and balances, doncha know.

But I think we already covered that, oh, about a million times.

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Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	If mutual love and respect becomes a prequisite for marital union, then I imagine that at least half of the current marriages in the country will have to be immediately dissolved. However, I applaud the court's decision. It is high time that homosexual couples were made to suffer just as their hertosexual counterparts.

08-05-10, 05:36 PM	#4
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	I agree with you, Frau. My comments were just intended to be silly.