| johnsobas said: well yeah if you are talking about public land obviously it would be put up for vote, this is private land, different case. The government can't discriminate against a certain group like gay marriage, that is why the law was struck down as unconstitutional. You can have different laws in each state, but they have to be (or are supposed to be) under equal rights protection. Different driving requirements is irrelevent, that is an across the board issue, they don't discriminate for no reason like they do with gays. |
Nothing is set in stone until the US Supreme Court rules on it. If Prop 8 along with Massachusetts striking down DOMA as unconstitutional reaches the US Supreme Court, then what do you think will be the constitutional question?
Do individuals regardless of sexual orientation have a US constitutional right to marry?
As far as I have read, there is nothing written in the US Constitution about a right to marry. Furthermore, considering the source of the 14th Amendment, it was a legal protection for freed slaves and the children of slaves. How this has gotten attached to so many different groups of individuals since it's passage as an amendment remains a mystery to me. Must be that "living historical document" intepretation by the US courts.
Furthermore, can you cite a source of where this land in Manhattan has been bought by the Islamic group building the Mosque? I have searched and come up dry.







