Quote:
Originally posted by Not Me
Actually, there is Supreme Court case law on the purported reasons.
|
When the Supreme Court supplies a post hoc rationalization, it is still a post hoc rationalization.
Quote:
|
Check the Supreme Court cases from the late 1800's upholding the ban on polygamy.
|
That's not what I wanted a cite for, but those do sound like fun reading. Those old decisions are tricky, what with the arguments of both sounds being recounted at length.
Quote:
|
My point is that it is best for a child to have both a mother and a father all else being equal.
|
My point was, cite please. My other point was, all else is never equal, so this point is about as relevant as a libertarian convention.
Quote:
|
But if you can have both a good mother and a good father, that is the best environment to raise a child in. Children a best raised by both a good mother and a good father.
|
Repetition is not citation.
Quote:
|
That has nothing to do with anything we are talking about. That is a government mandated arranged marriage. I am not talking about arranged marriages.
|
I thought you were talking about polygamy, which is often arranged marriage. I would have just made some polygamy jokes, but I'm all out.
Quote:
|
Providing legal recognition of marriage isn't legislating morality. Banning sodomy is legislating morality and I am glad that is no longer constitutional to do in the US.
|
Repetition is not legal argument, either.
