Putting all religion aside, Banning gay marriage is against the constitution?

Question

It is in our constitution that there shall be no discrimination based on sex, race, religion.. etc. etc. Isn't banning gay marriage discriminating against people. I know that everyone is going to bring religion into this anyways but oh well..

Answer 1

Yep. For those who say there isn't: what kind of Constitution are you reading?



14th Amendment: "Section 1. 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."



Work it out, haters. And try to pay attention in your U.S. Government class. The words are there, and if you're trying to make arguments based on the "complexity" of the political babble, it doesn't work.

Answer 2

I do think it would be unconstitutional. The constitution was created with room for adaption as society changed, but to keep core freedoms. Well, homosexuality, like it or not, is a lifestyle, it isn't criminal or dangerous, and so homosexuals should have the rights everyone else have.



I really don't like the idea about CA where the court overturned the voter's decision and basically re-wrote the law. I'm against what they did. But I do hope that, in a more fair way, same-sex marriages become legal and that no amendments prevent that.

Answer 3

No the place interior the bible does it say that mixing of races is undesirable. It speaks with regards to the subject of combining of countries (yet enable human beings of different countries to be accompanied into the Jewish united states of america, without subject approximately shade), even then interior the hot testomony it is mounted while all countries are presented God's word, the place in the previous it became constrained to the Jewish countries. So, as a results of fact the Bible does not help placing apart races like that, it truly is not a concept that we'd share in common. The evidence may well be on the guy attempting to apply the Bible to help their concept that races could be separated. and then whether they did that, i might in simple terms use some thing like the music of Solomon or how the Jewish united states of america can undertake absolutely everyone without regard to shade of epidermis into their united states of america and then be allowed to marry without a care. Or factor out that when you consider that 2 human beings of diverse races could have a sprint one, and that toddler is as appropriate as the different toddler, as smart, not genetically defunct or something (such as you could see in inbreeding), that youngsters are God's reward on a union, and so interracial marriages are patently blessed.

Answer 4

There is no way to remove religion from it, because marraige is a religion based topic, sadly.



Mayby naval captains should start marrying gay people, since they have the right to marry and it isnt religion based.



unfortunatly, the constitution was created at a time when freedoms werent needing to be defined in such detail.



The process the courts are going through right now is needed, to fix the flaw.



Everyone has the right to be married, the laws just need to catch up to todays beleifs of what our freedoms are.



I think we need to make a "stay the hell out of other peoples business unless someone is getting hurt" admendment.



Where the only people who can determine if something can be done are the people involved, as long as no one gets hurt.



It would allow gays to get married, it would allow people to get married to as many people as they want, and it would give rights to people HURT by someone elses actions.



but it will be a long time before the world stops hating people for who they are or want to be.

Answer 5

No, actually, there is nothing in the constitution that says there shall be no "discrimination" based on any of those things.



If there were, I suspect we could have avoided that whole slavery debacle.



(Really?? Are you serious??)



High-strung Guitarist is severely confused if she thinks the passage she's citing refers to guaranteeing citizens safety from "discrimination."

Answer 6

Nope. You know what IS against the constitution? Banning private ownership of fire arms, abortion, limiting freedom of speech, limiting freedom of religion, ..like a previous poster said, "read it."



By the way, "gay" is not a "sex". There are two sexes. male and Female.

Answer 7

gee a political official that wants to go against the constitution thats never been done before. i personally would like to see gay marriage available to anyone who wants it. i am strait. I just think that politics are over rated.

Answer 8

I I don't think the constitution covers marriage period. I think it's talking about other things. I think a Civil Union is ok but marriage does imply religion and well........we know how that goes.

Answer 9

Well, no it isn't.



Which amendment do you think that would be?



However, the 10th amendment does restrict the government to only enumerated powers, and regulating marriage is not one of them.

Answer 10

The constitution doesn't exactly say that, but I get what you mean.

It is illegal nonetheless to be deprives of rights based on those things.



To answer your question, it is unconstitutional.



Prop 8 is not a proposition, it's a hate crime.

Answer 11

well... I don't think it actually says that...



but many people feel that it would be the general idea behind the Constitution...



what the forefathers had ideally in mind...



total freedom for people to do what they want, as long as it didn't hurt others...

Answer 12

Here's a CRAZY idea:





If you are going to tell people what is in the Constitution, perhaps you should actually READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 13

well this nation is run by people who believe in Jesus

look on any piece of money

it says in GOD WE TRUST

so why would you expect people not to bring in religion it's going to happen

Answer 14

Didnt you know......... Bush has shredded the constitution its no longer relevant.

Answer 15

nah