14th Amendment Pros And Cons
Avigdor Schultz
Contemporary issues in Law
Professor. Kurland
12/15/15
PRO GAY RIGHTS FINAL The 14th amendment, passed by Congress on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, under the presidency of Andrew Johnson. The fourteenth Amendment is one of the reconstruction Amendments, it addresses citizenship rights, and the equal protection of the laws. Gay rights and same sex marriage is protected by the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth amendment.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities …show more content…
You can't deny somebody the right to get married without touching discrimination. " On July 25, 2014 Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel ruled Florida's gay marriage ban unconstitutional and stated that the ban serves only to hurt, to discriminate, to deprive same-sex couples and their families of equal dignity, to label and treat them as second-class citizens, and to deem them unworthy of participation in one of the fundamental institutions of our society."(ProCon.org) Opposing gay marriage is just flat out wrong, you can't just treat some citizen of the country one way and favor the others, that is 100% discrimination, and unconstitutional. Some people might argue and say that it's strictly a religious matter, however, that's not true, marriage is also a secular matter. Secondly telling gay people they can't get married isn't a religious freedom its abuse. Because if you were to base your argument off of the fact that gay people can't get married because of your religion, that's flat our crazy, one because not everyone in this country, or the world is of the same religion, and secondly, I can just go an make a religion were gay people are allowed to get married, and that ok because that what we believe in. Other people maybe argue that it says in the bible that gays getting married is an abomination, however, this country was founded on the fact that there is separation of church and state, which make that argument invalid as
Contemporary issues in Law
Professor. Kurland
12/15/15
PRO GAY RIGHTS FINAL The 14th amendment, passed by Congress on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, under the presidency of Andrew Johnson. The fourteenth Amendment is one of the reconstruction Amendments, it addresses citizenship rights, and the equal protection of the laws. Gay rights and same sex marriage is protected by the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth amendment.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities …show more content…
You can't deny somebody the right to get married without touching discrimination. " On July 25, 2014 Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel ruled Florida's gay marriage ban unconstitutional and stated that the ban serves only to hurt, to discriminate, to deprive same-sex couples and their families of equal dignity, to label and treat them as second-class citizens, and to deem them unworthy of participation in one of the fundamental institutions of our society."(ProCon.org) Opposing gay marriage is just flat out wrong, you can't just treat some citizen of the country one way and favor the others, that is 100% discrimination, and unconstitutional. Some people might argue and say that it's strictly a religious matter, however, that's not true, marriage is also a secular matter. Secondly telling gay people they can't get married isn't a religious freedom its abuse. Because if you were to base your argument off of the fact that gay people can't get married because of your religion, that's flat our crazy, one because not everyone in this country, or the world is of the same religion, and secondly, I can just go an make a religion were gay people are allowed to get married, and that ok because that what we believe in. Other people maybe argue that it says in the bible that gays getting married is an abomination, however, this country was founded on the fact that there is separation of church and state, which make that argument invalid as