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Wow. Just wow.

Grats on doing so well at suppressing your urges to **** dudes, though. That's hard core.

Change your filter settings :p

And yeah, he stated he believes rights are arbitrary.

Yeah, a lot of varrus's posts are no-rated in this thread now. Makes it hard to follow.

It's really a question of perception. A liberal of the late 18th century would say that all humans have inherent rights and form governments merely to protect those rights.

They tax one income level higher than another. If they tried to say that Steve Smith has to pay 20% and Jane Doe has to pay 30%, that would be unconstitutional. If Steve and Jane earn the same income, they pay the same rate (before deductions and other mitigating circumstances).

Essentially, yes. The court found that the 9th and 14th amendments rights to privacy and the restriction of government action on personal liberty encompass the right to an abortion.

It has the capacity to act against the law. What's your point?


One could argue that taxation of any kind goes against the principles of freedom this country was founded on, but that's not the point in question either. The revenue laws, whatever else might be wrong with them, do not violate equal protection.

I guess it just shows how little I know about christianity as practiced. I've just never met someone who was religious and also believed that rights were arbitrary.

Well, Ari, you know more than anyone that it isn't just that. As both bisexual people and many homosexual people have had satisfying sexual relationships with a person of the opposite sex, but rather, there is no reason to deny same sex couples equal rights under the law. When I've been with women it hasn't been b/c men disgust me, it was because I thought that that woman was awesome and no crappy Varrus type has the right to say that relationship has second rate status if we decide to build a legal union and have a family.

Edited, Oct 15th 2008 1:25pm by Annabella

It galls me.

Why?

Because you hold those beliefs with a complete absence of evidence, and, in fact, completely contrary to all the availiable evidence.

So, why should anyone have any respect whatsoever for your opinions, and why shouldn't I find your decision to use your vote based on nothing more than a collection of pre-medievel superstitions 'galling'?

I honestly don't care if someone believes in religion and votes as such.

What galls me is that polititians then pander to the religions morons instead of actually upholding justice and keeping church and state seperate.

Its in the first one, you don't even have to look very far. Laws are supposed to not relate to religion in any way.