Homosexuals and the Constitution

[BOSSHOG]

I'm sending out a few emails to columnists asking if one would please write a column on why christian conservatives have to amend the U. S. Constitution to ban homosexuals from getting married. Is the answer because the ban is not in there now? YES! Kinda puts a damper on the old "what the founding fathers intended" logic. I'm a by the book kinda guy and I just don't see any legal block for homosexuals to get married today (excepting the state amendments spearheaded by the religiously insane who hate in the name of Jesus Christ, and those amendments can be overturned or set aside by "activist" judges who love our country more than they love the bible.) If I'm wrong in stating that there is no ban on homosexuals getting married as the document is written now, please set me straight (no pun intended.) If I am correct than let the emails start flying. I have a copy of the constitution on my desk as well as the bible. The bill of rights trumps the hell out of Leviticus at each and every reading. Please join me in shedding the light on those who would destroy our constitution in the name of religion.

[sui generis]

1. amen brother

ultimately it's about property as far as the government is concerned.

If I live with someone and share bills, mutual fiscal responsibility and responsibility for our mutual dependents then it's only fitting that the government should recognize that de facto legal relationship.

I could give a crap about whether churches approve of same-sex marriage. I just want to be able determine FOR MYSELF how my property is going to be disposed, regardless of whether I'm married to a woman, a man, or single.

As it stands now as a legally single man in most states I can't even put in my will that I want my life partner to get the house and bazillions of dollars in life insurance and bank accounts and assets because that would confer the "rights" of marriage upon him even though we're not married.

In those states, the children of my third cousin twice removed have more rights to my property than my life partner does, even when I specify as a crabby old ADULT that I want my property to go to him.

I don't believe that's what the forefathers intended when they spoke of "freedoms". It's not very free.

Also, some hospitals won't let him visit me in the hospital, EVEN IF I EXPLICITLY SAY SO. Because he's not "next of kin". So my wicked stepmother and evil stepsisters have more rights in MY adult life than my very own prince charming.