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Terribly and sadly odd, we, here, in America are removing individual rights from homosexuals while Canada is granting individual rights to same sex marriage. Yes, discrimination. One country is discriminating against its people while the other country is not.
The other day Saskatchewan granted same sex marriage. That was Canadian province number six to do so. Six out of ten provinces, and one territory (Yukon Territory), all grant same sex marriage. Newfoundland will be next.
The issue is not marriage, per se, however.
No, instead the issue is about granting obligations and duties in law. That is, allowing gays to be subject to the same laws, both federal and state, as straights, period. That's what it's all about. Nothing more.
Unless, of course, one then gets into the "moral" and "immorality" as cast upon homosexuality as perceived in religion! This country went through similar angst about slavery and segregation for over 330 years - from 1619 to the mid-1950s and beyond.
If the states weren't forced into rescinding slavery and its "badges and incidents" by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments through forceful congressional enactments of the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1950s, then I believe there still would be a sort of slavery and/or segregation to this day!
Laws are made to force the unwilling to conform to society.
And when congress or the states are unwilling to enact laws to grant individual rights as our state and federal constitutions enumerate, then courts step in to interpret constitutions ordering such rights. Simple, really.
The time will come, eventually, when these legal rights will be granted to homosexuals as long as America is willing to separate religion from law. And we will.
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