| marioboy2004 said:
Yeah I agree that freedom to associate with whomever one wishes is a right but my point was that marriage has benefits and responsibilities. People can associate with whomever they want, but if I lose my job because I hold to a traditional definition of marriage then I feel that is crossing a thin line. Should an atheist be neglected the right to work at a Christian institution then and be forcefully fired? |
Then that's not freedom of association, that's forced association, which is immoral. You are being forced to associate with people you don't want to, in order to marry them.
I was directly responding to your point about marriage being a privilege and not a right, not with your general point.
Marriage is a right, but just being a right doesn't entitle you to force somebody to assist you with it. We have the right to own property, that doesn't mean we have the right to force people to give us property. We have the right to own arms, that doesn't mean we are entitled to take guns from those who don't want to give them to us, we just have to go elsewhere.
