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its people "equal protection of the laws," while the people are "enjoying and and defending life and liberty, and persuing and obtaining safety, happiness and privacy," AND deny some of the people the already-granted right "to join in marriage with the person of one's choice?"

Of course not. And so, gay marriage was legalized - after all, gay people are people too, as everyone involved in the debate recognizes.

Uh-oh, the anti-gay bigots are thinking. Now what?

Now, we move on to further study of your bigoted statements, my dear bigoted friends, and I do admit I'm quite enjoying calling you bigots over and over again. Some of my favorite people in the whole world happen to be gay, and I'm sick and tired of your attempts not at 'expressing' or 'practising' your 'faith,' but deliberately denying the morality, nobility, and humanity of your fellow human beings, some of which are my closest friends.

After all, they are your fellow human beings. So are non-whites, by the way, for those still stuck a few hundred years in the past. Get with it.

So, one by one, some more myths will henceforth be addressed:

Myth #1: "Gay marriage should be banned because god says '________' in '_______' part of the Bible." The First Amendment to the United States Constitution bans the United States Congress from making any law "respecting an establishment of religion or that prohibits the free exercize thereof." Setting aside the embarassing fact that it's a Canadian (me) explaining this to a bunch of Americans (most of those in disagreement with me), the Fist Amendment means that you can't have laws made for religious reasons. While the reasons may happen to agree with people's religious notions, they can't exist due only to religious notions.

If laws agree with religious convictions, it is only by accident, not intention - in order for the laws to be considered constitutionally supported, anyway.

Further, you can have your churches, and your Bibles, and your Christian bookstores, etcetera - those can't be banned. So feel free do do what you like in your supernatural world, in your homes, and in your churches. But if you care about the U. S. Constitution, don't push it on anyone else, especially by trying to tell adults who to marry. They're free to have their own opinions about religion, just like you are.

That you're using your religion to deny the very Amendment which gives you the freedom to practice your religion is simply laughable: the joke is on you, and you don't even realize it.

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