Marriage Equality Opponents: the 1st Amendment does not give you the right to break the law!
They constantly try to make themselves the victim because they are not allowed to force their religious beliefs on to the rest of us.
They complain that public businesses should be able to refuse to provide service to LGBT people and same sex couples if it violates their religious beliefs. So basically they must think that public businesses are a church or something!
More below.
And of course the latest news (of which there are several diaries by different Kossers) from Ireland about the popular vote for Marriage Equality has just got them all worked up into a uproar.
Marriage Equality opponents from America, Canada and elsewhere pulled out all the stops to try and encourage Ireland to not vote for Marriage Equality. As usual they tried to use their infamous fear and slippery slope tactics but they fail to realize that those tactics are failing to resonate so much with decent people who believe in Equality.
Right wing watch is full of details about what the right wing has done in the time leading up to today's vote to try and change the outcome to prevent Marriage Equality from becoming a reality.
Here is a good quote reported by right wing watch which attempts to take people's natural concern about children and scare them into voting against Equality.
In Massachusetts, a federal judge has ruled that public schools must instruct the children attending them, without parental notification or consent, that same gender marriage is the equivalent of traditional marriage
Well of course they ignore the plain and simple fact that same-gender marriage is equivalent to their so-called
traditional marriage! Duh!!
Or how about this one, also reported by right wing watch:
In states where same gender marriage has been legalized, employers, including religious employers, must provide spousal benefits to the partners of homosexuals who have contracted civil marriages.”
Which once again illustrates so well that these people don't even know what the 1st Amendment means!
Religious employers, huh? So I guess they think a public business is a church?
I have to admit I am getting some enjoyment out of watching these right wing bigot heads exploding over the way Marriage Equality is spreading rapidly! :)
See more at: Right Wing Watch on Marriage Equality
On this page is a link to a letter sent to Ireland against Marriage Equality. Search for Catholic Action League’s press release on the above page.