I am so sick and tired of reading all of the “Where does the Constitution say we have a right to marriage?” type comments everywhere on the internet.
And it’s not like I read a bunch of conservative blogs. Okay, I still follow a few conservatives on twitter, but this is like in the mainstream news, so it’s virtually unavoidable.
No one is saying that we have a constitutional right to marriage.
What we have is a constitutional right to be treated equally by the law.
That means, you can’t give one group of people government recognized unions with lots of legal and financial benefits and deny it to another group of people just because what they do in the bedroom makes you feel icky (or secretly turned on).
This is very basic constitutional stuff. Really. Is it wrong for me to expect more from the people who claim to want to go back to the Constitution?
I guess it’s only wrong if I don’t want to keep getting disappointed. Because that’s where expecting more seems to lead.
