Kentucky Clerk Denies Marriage Licenses | Update: Clerk Freed w/Warning!

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reggin_bolas said:

CosmicSex said:

Well, I agree.  But I think it should read:

You have no right to deny anyone their rights. 

Marriage is not an unqualified right. One cannot possibly arrive at this conclusion by any means of logic or common sense. 

If two sets of people would like to get married by the government, then the government has the option of not allowing either couple to get married or allowing both.  

I agree that a government sanctioned marriage is not an unqualified right.  However, the if the government has laws in place to allow federally recognized marriage, they are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of any protected classification, unless they have some kind of a legitimate reason to not allow it for one particular group.

They can choose to abolish federal marriage altogether, but they cannot pick and choose who gets to be married.