gimini210's Blog

The concept of rights are simple - you have a right to swing your arm until your fist hits someone else's face. You have a right to do what you want unless it takes something away from another person against his will.

First off, atheists do NOT want to eliminate prayer in school, just school sponsored prayer. I for one, as an atheist would be the first to fight for students' rights to pray in school, so long as a teacher doesn't mandate or lead it. Schools are not indoctrination camp. And atheism is not a religion either. This is NEUTRALITY in government.

Secondly, with gay marriage, opponents don't like it, but so what? Is it hurting anyone? Who is the victim? This is the equivalent of swinging one's arms, but no fist hits anyone.

Affirmative action, which is what you allude to in your employment paragraph, is not equal rights (as you say). It's just more discrimination, 2 wrongs trying to make a right (no pun intended!).

As for men and women, I wholehartedly agree. I'm tired of this ridiculous notion that women can do anything (or should do anything) an man can do and vice versa.

Why not let women into the NFL? Because they would likely be killed. The average woman just isn't as big or strong as the average man. It's a fact. But I'm sure I'll get blasted for pointing this out because it's not PC.

Many years ago I worked for the Federal government. At that time I observed that all of the supervisors and managers in the agency where I worked were minorities. I didn't think that it was right that there was not one single supervisor or manager present who looked like me, but yet what could I do about it? I couldn't protest that my rights were violated. I felt the hostility and oppression for being a white male. I underwent a system where my chances for advancement were limited because the minorities had control, and they knew that if the "white boy" got out of line, just give him the hard jobs, and bad job reviews. It didn't matter that I had an education better than theirs. It didn't matter that I knew my job better than they did. All that mattered was that they were not going to advance anyone who was not the same gender or color they were!

Discrimination and trampling upon others "rights" happens all of the time. The biggest problem is how we handle it.

The problem with equal rights happens to be the equal, you can not call anything equal if you take from one to give to another leaving one without a right.

I have none with what defines marriage. I was just saying there is no such thing as EQUAL rights. If you take a right from one person and give a right to another the equal part has flown the coop.

The problem is with the term EQUAL RIGHTS. What we are suppose to have is equal opportunity and equal treatment. The Declaration of Independence says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Pay attention to the words. We have a right to life and liberty, but only a right to the PURSUIT of happiness. No where does it say we have the right or guarantee to actually obtain happiness.

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Anyway - I'm glad Hussein picked a good ol' hard working lesbian to protect our country in homeland security! LOL... :-O

I'm always surprised when someone else thinks that they know what's better for me than I do. It is amazing to me that we have to create even more laws to tell everybody what they can or cannot do. The fact is, if you don't want to go to that "smoking" bar, don't go. End of discussion. But the problem is this: you want to tell me I don't have the right to go to a bar, light up a cigarette, and drink a beer. Why do you feel you have more of a right than I do? Why don't you go to a nonsmoking bar? Why do you want to take MY rights away? Huh? You are not always right, SUZY. As a matter of fact, you are really not right about this one. And I'll tell you something else: I don't smoke cigarettes, but I think other people have the right to make that decision for themselves. And if a bar wants to be a nonsmoking bar, then it should be up to that bar owner, not a very vocal minority.

Majority rule is mob rule. Democracy is 51 wolves and 49 sheep deciding what's for dinner. Who cares what the majority thinks? It has no right to violate basic human rights.

And I don't care what your religion says, we're not a theocracy, nor has any religion ever been part of common law.

Again I ask you milton, who is the victim of a gay marriage? How are you harmed? I've asked this question over and over on this blog (and everywhere else) and never gotten an answer.

Civil unions smacks of separate but equal doctrine.

I mean you do realize that generally speaking the more people you have in an insurance group the better the rates are, right?

Fewer people = higher premiums.

So really adding gays should make your premium cheaper.

And how is your example any different than a hetrosexual couple getting married and having one of them "not want to go out and get a job"?

So are you for it now?

SuzyQ & jpbiker -
When did I say "gay marriage" is harming me?
Not to mention, this logic - as long as no one gets hurt it must be okay - is ridiculous. I shouldn't even have to support that statement. You guys are missing the point here.
This topic has been voted on by various states multiple times - and the result is the same.
I'm sorry you don't like the results, but that is something you will have to come to terms with.
This is what makes our country the envy of the world. We have a political process in which we can vote and then we live with the choice the voters have made.
I don't like the fact that Obama is the next President of the United States - but I am not running aroung the streets with signs screaming my rights have been violated. I just have to accept that he is the next President. End of story.