November 21, 200817 yr Examples? Ok, 1. Right to marriage. It's not anywhere in the constitution. It's a privacy right guaranteed through our liberty rights. It's, as we learned in Con Law,a penumbra of rights generated through a collection of Amendments. 2. Right to fulfill an occupation. These laws are to ensure that you get or get rejected from employment on qualifications, not b/c of race, sex, disability, or sexual orientation. That's all that the hate crime thing is doing, its to ensure that homosexuals don't get discriminated on the basis of their sexual orientation. It's not asking for a quota to be filled or a special hiring task force be assigned.
November 21, 200817 yr If we're talking marriage, it's a special right since a marriage is defined as being between a man and a women. A civil union I have no problem with. Here's the problem w/ civil unions, if you want to grant them in KY. CT and CA, before Prop 8 found that civil unions bestow create a lesser classification on homosexuals and is a violation of equal protection. I know that Vermont and a few other states allow them, and New York recognizes them if a couple moves in from out of state, but that's grounds for a Constitutional question and the court would have to take that case. It's almost all or nothing. Remember, CT released this opinion on 10/28 and California released theirs in May, so, while new, may be the way that courts start looking at civil unions. Again, marriage wasn't officially defined as b/n a man and woman until the DOMA in 2006. It however, has always been seen as such in common law from what I've read. Again, I'm not a Constitutional Law lawyer, or a lawyer in anything.
November 22, 200817 yr So you can't reference something if you don't believe it? Can I not make a reference to Mein Kampf when teaching because I don't believe in it? Just applies to the Bible if you ask me.
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