Liberty's Blog: Proposition 2

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Proposition 2

I don't understand at all why folks are getting behind this proposition 2 ammendment. As I've mentioned before it is the married folk without children who are getting screwed by the goverment. We pay the highest taxes and get the least in return. The reason that we straight people choose marriage is because its our claim to commitment, this commitment results hopefully in strong stable relationships. Strong stable relationships are a benefit to society, this is the basis of every stable culture. On the other hand promiscuis behavior is causes unstability, which all society pays the price. Marrried folk are more likely to own homes, build build real futures, and take care of each other in times of duress. They are less likely to commit crimes, spread sexually diseases, and live day to day. Proposition 2 on the Texas balot is a bad idea on many fronts.

Constitutional ammendments is a serious change in law, many times with unintended consequenses. Marriage between same sex partners is not now legal, nor is it likely to become legal within the next few years. There are questions about how clear this new ammendment is and that it could effect conventional marriages.
It will prevent the state from creating intruments that would protect couples, The only reason I can see for preventing a legal arraingement simular to marriage is meanness and vindictiveness. Legal arrangments declaring domestic parterships will allow folks to make there commitments and the same promises to each other that married couples make.
Passing this amendment will do nothing to limit homosexuality,What it will serve to alienate a certain element of our citizenship.
Contrary to what the proponants say, The prposed amendment does nothing to strengthen traditional marriages. Restricting it for some cannot enhance any one elses marriage.

I understand that to many folks homosexual relationships is distastful, but it doesn't make it right for us to strike out at them. This whole amendment smells of vindictivness, and that just wrong.

2 Comments:

On 10/31/2005 11:31:00 AM, bob said...: I couldn't agree more that an amendment is a bad idea, but for slightly different reasons. In my view, the government should have nothing to do with marriage at all. It should not prohibit it, require it, regulate it, or tax it. It's really none of their business, as it is a civil and/or religeous contract between two (or more) private parties.

There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution about marriage, or income tax, for that matter...
On 10/31/2005 01:01:00 PM, Liberty said...: I don't know much about what the Texas State Constitution, or The US Contitution has to say about maeiage, but marriage is a legal condition that is all invasive in how we are treated by our government. What I find so curious about Prop 2. Is that libertarian conservatives, and the mainstream conservatives cannot reasonably debate this. It is as though both sides don't understand at all where the other side is comming from.