18 Comments

1. Scott Rose
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 11:58 am | Permalink

   What is marriage, if not a civil right? It isn't a religious rite, unless a couple chooses to get married in a religious context. And, just because gay-bashing bigots want to discriminate against their hated homosexuals in the matter of marriage, doesn't mean that they are not actively seeking to deny the civil right to the detested minority. What's more is that it looks ridiculous when NOM continues to push it's "Not a civil right" campaign, after the NAACP has stated that marriage *is* a civil right. Civil rights are not exclusive to the context of the 1960s in the United States. Women, for example, long were denied the civil right to vote. There were men who did not want them to have that civil right, but saying "it isn't a civil right for women to vote" obviously is idiotic.

2. Scott Rose
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:01 pm | Permalink

   Gay marriage a civil right, NAACP says in resolution
   http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/21/gay-marriage-a-civil-right-naacp-says-in-resolutio/

3. OvercameSSA
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

   Marriage is an institution formed by the union of man and woman and their offspring. That's a definition, not a right.

   There are government benefits/costs associated with marriage, but you have to be married to get them. If the "right" to those benefits is what you seek.....wait for it......get married.

4. Pete
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

   Even MLK told his followers that the civil rights movement was borrowed from Gandhi. And as Scott has accurately pointed out so has the SCOTUS.

5. Pete
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:29 pm | Permalink

   BTW, NOMers, the First Court of Appeals has ruled today that DOMA is unconstitutional. DOMA is being dismantled with no sign of surviving.

6. Barb Chamberlan
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

   The arrogance of those who equate fake marriage with the civil rights movement is hard to fathom.

7. OvercameSSA
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

   Oooh, a federal appeals court! Time for SCOTUS to settle this once and for all; or better yet, a Constitutional Amendment as is the case in over 30 states.

8. Son of Adam
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

   This is all the more reason to pass a Federal Marriage Amendment. The antics of the First Court of Appeals makes that perfectly clear.

9. GZeus
   Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

   As America marches forward, you will see more and more desperation from the right and NOM. Just like those "Christian" clergy calling for the extermination of gays and the distortion of facts and outright lies. But, we shall overcome.

10. Pete
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    Silly NOMers, moral disapproval does not equate to constitutional. But you full-time rationalizers can have at it, you do amuse. But why would the SCOTUS touch this?

11. Zack
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

    Mitt Romney are you listening?!

12. David Argue
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    Unfortunately, the NAACP has lost the respect of a lot of its members due to its recent decision. Just because they say it's a civil right doesn't mean it is. I think they were just jumping on the bandwagon in order to get more press at a time when their organization was struggling to stay relevent.

13. Michael
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

    This doesn't suggest to me that gay rights aren't civil rights, though. It just suggests that Morris, Owens, and others like them acted not out of a sense of justice, but out of self interest.

14. Doug
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 4:23 pm | Permalink

    So pathetic to see the discriminated discriminate.

15. Louis E.
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    Scott Rose,
    marriage exists to unite males to females,something very important to humanity while there is no need for even a single same-sex sexual relationship to exist in the entire species.All "right" to it exists within the context of its purpose of uniting the sexes.
    Inclination to defy a public policy does not enroll one in a group with a right to do so.

16. Daughter of Eve
    Posted May 31, 2012 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

    Good for them. And now, for a trial by fire.

17. Andrea
    Posted June 1, 2012 at 7:05 pm | Permalink

    I thank God for those who are standing for God's truth. The Bible is not a buffet--it is the Word of God.

18. John N.
    Posted June 1, 2012 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

    I symphasize with what the blacks had to go thru. They got the shaft in Amercia and these civil rights laws were needed to remedy this situation.

    To equate sexaual perversion with real suffering is a hijack of the civil rights movement.