Comments on: Supreme Court to Hear Prop 8, DOMA Cases

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:14:15 +0000

Nature is not a good place to look for support for anti-same sex marriage. I have personally observed male dogs mounting male dogs and even a female dog mount a male cat. Since that occurred in nature, that means it is natural. Marriage is a human construct, it is not from nature.

By: Luke Visconti

Luke Visconti — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:54:36 +0000

If you think it’s “un-natural,” then you shouldn’t do it. Stabilizing already existing family structures will have no negative impact on our society; it will have a positive impact—but that is beside the point. Our Constitution is written in a way that assumes people have rights given them by the creator—and that the government only administers certain functions, among them adjudicating disputes about rights. In the course of our history, this has been a path of liberation.

In this case, the legal privileges inherent in the governmental contract of marriage are what is at stake, not religious values (which are protected under the First Amendment). Therefore, the people opposed to same-gender marriage have to prove that same-gender marriage in some way damages heterosexual marriage in the civil context. In the Proposition 8 case, the people opposed to same-gender marriage could not prove that point—they couldn’t come up with a single expert who had proof.

Nothing’s changed since then, except more same-gender marriages have been performed in the states that permit them. And guess what? There’s still no proof that same-gender marriages in some way damage heterosexual marriages. I expect the Supreme Court will see things the same way as the judges in California. Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

By: Renu Ketu

Renu Ketu — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:28:56 +0000

I can’t believe a country who is the leader in the world is moving towards changing our society’s one of the most important institution “Marriage”. Is our Supreme court analyzing the future negative impact LGBT marriages may have on our society.

We hear lots of buzz words on eating organic food so stay more natural so why the society can’t see in nature “is there LGBT marriage in animals?”

It is purely un-natural and I am surprised a leading nation in the world encourages this behavior.