I don't know how to answer your poll so I'll give an answer as to my own thoughts.
Homosexuality has a very long history in the world up through this day, and while it's a deviation from normal human sexuality, the fact that it exists and will continue to exist is something we must keep in mind.
Couple that with the fact that there are legal benefits that heterosexuals enjoy when they have legal social unions (otherwise known as marriage) I don't believe depriving people of those same legal benefits under the law is constitutional.
Our mainly protestant society has never accepted homosexuals on an equal standing, but I would think legally as a point of law, we can't rule against gay marriage because our constitution is based on the premise all people are equal in the eyes of the law.
All we can hope to do, is to change the hearts and minds of the people once more towards God, and that's a job for God, but we can work with Him whenever possible.
Homosexuality has a very long history in the world up through this day, and while it's a deviation from normal human sexuality, the fact that it exists and will continue to exist is something we must keep in mind.
Same as any other sin. It will exist but we can minimize the damage by laws and enforcement of those laws.
Couple that with the fact that there are legal benefits that heterosexuals enjoy when they have legal social unions (otherwise known as marriage) I don't believe depriving people of those same legal benefits under the law is constitutional.
It is constitutional. We deprive pedophiles from having relations with children. It is no different.
Our mainly protestant society has never accepted homosexuals on an equal standing, but I would think legally as a point of law, we can't rule against gay marriage because our constitution is based on the premise all people are equal in the eyes of the law.
Equality is only in this context:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men....
The Bible tells us that God ordained government for our good. A good government is supposed to secure our God given rights.
We are created equal in the context of our God given rights. The founders by majority held to the Biblical God and English law which also defined marriage as the Bible defines marriage.
All men are created equal, but equal to what? The unalienable GOD given rights. This 1913 case below explains the thinking of the founders.
Grigsby v. Reib, 153 S.W. 1124 (Tex. 1913)
Marriage was not originated by human law. When God created Eve, she was a wife to Adam; they then and there occupied the status of husband to wife and wife to husband. When God created the first pair, He gave the command: "Multiply and replenish (people) the earth," which was enjoined upon their expulsion from the garden.
therefore, we conclude that "the common law of England" adopted by the Congress of the Republic was that which was declared by the courts of the different States of the United States. This conclusion is supported by the fact that the lawyer members of that Congress who framed and enacted that statute had been reared and educated in the United States and would naturally *Page 601 have in mind the common law with which they were familiar.
Do you believe pedophiles should have equal protection under the law? Why or why not?
The equal protection clause:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Equal protection of the laws. Which law did the court pull from in past marriage cases? Marriage by law has always been defined as a covenant, religious and civil marriage between one man and one woman.
In reality, we have statistics showing the harmful effects on kids who grow up without a biological father or a biological mother. We also have statistics on birth/death rates in the US. We have the science showing how dangerous and unhealthy LGBT lifestyles are.
This is why we do not allow equality with destructive behaviors.