Well, I'll Be!

I finally found things to disagree with SlagleRock about!

In a post he put up the other day, he said,"I personally feel that Gay rights is an issue this country must address, it is inevitable. Second, let me say that my political affiliations have nothing to do with religion and actually agree that the commandments should go. There is no place for religious relics in political or government venues."

Now this post was about an email he received from the Communist Party of the USA, and there were quite a few things in it that were objectionable (no surprise, right?) but I was taken aback a bit by these statements by Rock his own mad, bad self.

I have to plead ignorance for part of this, since I am unaware of any Federal laws that discriminate against gays. As such, I think that any laws that single out a group of people based on lifestyle is a bad thing. I'm not talking racial or gender here, but lifestyle. And yes, your sexlife is a lifestyle - so is chastity, the lack of one (unless you happen to be a Catholic priest, but that's a whole 'nuther story!)

By that reasoning bigamy, polygamy, beastiality - lots of sex-based lifestyles could be similarly protected. Does gay pornography get protected by Constitutional Amendment as well? Wouldn't that depend on the future makeup of the Supreme Court, rather than the will of the people?

Now, the Ten Commandments have proved much more problematical for lots of folks, who can see them only as religious trappings. The problem is that - by using a 'religion is bad' test - and only that, most State Constitutions are Unconstitutional. So is the Declaration of Independence (which I know has no force in law, but even so ...). Hell so is the Constitution itself, if I remember the Preamble correctly.

The Ten Commandments are also an historical document - accepted as such by more cultures than just ours. They are the basis for the English system of Laws - upon which we relied for our legal system. We just took their base and ran with it to its ridiculous extreme. If you doubt that, I'll put a cup of McDonald's coffee between your legs!

Our courts have become not much more than a reality game of 'so you want to be a millionaire' - But that brings me to the current Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, and I really don't want to go there.

Where was I? Oh, yeah -

Alabama is seen as a test case for the Ten Commandments, but it was decided strictly on the arguments presented, not by any real world basis. The Supreme Court is now revisiting a case, and to the best of my knowledge that hasn't been decided yet.

That's it - two things. Fairly insiginificant in the overall scheme of things.