Today we are going to talk about some of the impacts of the gay
marriage ruling. In particular, the fact is our laws are not gender
neutral and thus not in line with the ruling. Let us begin.
We are going to be gender neutral: Sex is now going to be defined by genders.
Why you ask? Well, the reasoning is because when the Supreme Court
passed the ruling changing the definition of marriage, it eliminated the two
sole sexes that government uses in laws (man and woman). Now the
government has to operate under the definitions of gay, lesbian and more.
This is in part because there are no gender neutral laws in the federal
or even many State governments. You see it is easy to list man and woman
and the roles associated with them like father and mother, but once you include
two fathers, or any other unique combination, you face the problem of listing
them all so that they can be included in the new definition of marriage and all
the laws that benefit people in that arrangement. From there it has a
ripple effect on all the other laws in government and thus laws protecting just
men, or just women are no longer adequate as they are not capable of legally
protecting gays, lesbians etc. So all laws must be re-written and even
laws that define parents to children come into question.
Likewise, this impacts the definition of a
child for originally a child belonged solely to a father and a mother.
Now the child can have two fathers or two mothers, or even a different
gender entirely. It also opens up issues on sex discrimination.
With gender becoming synonymous with sex, schools and sports teams can't
discriminate by having separate teams for men and women as there is now other
genders to consider. Codes of conduct at schools and businesses also are
gender specific and are not neutral. So they will need to be re-written
or else they open themselves up to a lawsuit. Also, this expands hate
crimes as well to include people who support traditional marriage. Already
some have lost their job merely because they support traditional marriage and
thus are considered hateful because of it. For instance, a Firefighter
lost his job because he was a minister of his church that believed in
traditional marriage, and a Navy Chaplain of Seal Team Six lost his when he was
asked about sex outside of marriage. You can see now why the laws need to
be changed as it makes people look like haters for expressing their religious
beliefs on marriage. Thankfully in the Supreme Court ruling, Justice
Kennedy wrote to protect religious liberty, but this must be acted on for it to
actually protect people with religious views or else my mere association with
my Catholic Church can cause me to potentially lose my job. Needless to say
that this is a mess.
Conclusion: There are literally 82 recognized
genders by the federal government, and that also includes pedophiles.
Also, there are already some vindictive members of the gay community that
are targeting churches to either forcefully make them marry gays or shut them
down, and celebrities and radio hosts over their views of marriage to remove
them from the spot light. Thankfully most members of the gay community
are not like this, but we have to move fast. Issues will continue to crop
up from this ruling that shakes the foundations of our very legal system and
our religious protection rights. But this is also an opportunity.
While the Supreme Court should have made it no one’s business on who can
marry whom and eliminated all marriage benefits as they do not need to exist,
it opened the door to other things. The ruling can be used to justify
people carrying guns, and medical marijuana across State borders. It
gives us the opportunity to replace bad laws with good ones, and even just out
right remove bad laws altogether. It will allow us to have a conversation
on religious liberty and rights, in addition to free speech. As such, I
can say without a doubt, that while our troubles are far from over due to this
ruling, the opportunities and the benefits from it are numerous.
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