Gay Marriage
Posted by Robbie53024 12 years, 8 months ago to Legislation
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Personally - It doesn't matter to me who someone marries, as long as they're truly happy. Why is that important? Because I'd rather have an employee who is in a gay marriage happy and producing at 110% of his or her capacity because they're happy and accepted than have someone who is in a faked str8 marriage and miserable and have my productivity suffer because someone else deides that's what that person should do.
It's always that way (sadly) about this "morality" thing - One person is uncomfortable with something someone else does, and they condemn it. Kinda like the moochers telling someone they are bad and should be outlawed because they are producers. When you think about it, there isn't much difference between the 2.
My point is this - From a Producer's standpoint, not a Sociologist's, I'd way rather have happy, healthy, productive employees than miserable, downtrodden, and fearful ones. If allowing a couple - whoever they are - to get married will let them go from the latter to the former, then I'm all for it. If I were a controlling looter, I'd say otherwise - I have to prevent that sociological phenomenon because *I* don't like it. and because *I* don't approve of it, it must be wrong.
Personally, I tend to go more toward the "personal freedom" side rather than the "Overarching controller of others" side. Maybe also because I've seen this phenomenon happen firsthand, I have an understanding of how not forcing my values on someone else pays dividends to my bottom line.
And I still don't see how it relates to livestock. Seriously. If I married a man of a different race, or even a woman, is that the same as marrying a sheep? My God, man, how many human vs livetock marriages have you been to?
It has always seemed to me... this whole marrying livestock Bravo Sierra, "Oooh, everyone would think *that's* weird, so lets equate something *I* don't like with something to get everyone's stomach turning, so they'll believe like me." And personally - I could care less either what 2 adults do in their bedroom, or if they show up toegther at the company picnic. As long as they produce. And generate profit for the company.
Like I said... it's my bottom line. My happy, not looking over their shoulders, wondering wht others are thinking about them employees have fewer accidents and work harder, because their mind is on the JOB, not on what someone else is thinking about them.
Have a prosperous Monday...
In fact, the 10th amendment strictly prohibits the federal government from messing in anything not explicitly specified in the constitution and subsequent amendments, something our federal legislators seem to have forgotten.
I encourage all to communicate with the justices that the only appropriate ruling is to nullify any/all federal legislation of marriage and send these issues back to the individual states.
The same process for gay marriage will be as it was for interracial marriage and most likely the courts will rule that States must allow them to take place or they will be denying a citizen their right to liberty.
Marriage has been ruled a 'fundamental right' by the UN also, though with no definition of the term.
The causes of the War Between the States was much more than just slavery. The people of the South felt there were Social, Economic, Political and Religious differences between the North and the South that two Nations already existed. One cause does not tear a Nation apart, it is a cumulation of many factors that highlight major differences until one side or the other no longer sees a purpose of trying to reason with the other. Or as was put in the Declaration of Independence, "...to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."