Is not allowing gay marriage an act of bigotry or oppression?

I hear all the time that gays are a minority when in the 90's they were denied legal minority status seeing as though homosexuality is not a gender nor an ethnicity.





Thomas Jefferson said ';all men are equal and therefor no man shall make law for another. we call matters to vote and let the majority decide';





this is not majority ruling over the minority. they are technically numerical minorities but not constitutional minorities. so i ask again. is the denying of gay marriage an act of bigotry or the people of a democracy banning together to come to agreement on what is acceptable/unacceptable?Is not allowing gay marriage an act of bigotry or oppression?
Yes, it is, because you are denying a basic right to a segment of the population. This isn't rocket science. Society admits that there are people whose relationships are not heterosexual. However there are those that believe their relationships should not be recognised legally like heterosexual couples. That, my friend, is the foundation of segregation. These people can have these rights, but those people over there can't.





Homosexuality was removed from mental health books in 1973. Sodomy laws were repealed in 2003. Four states already recognise same sex marriages, and the President has mentioned working towards the repealing of the Defense of Marriage Act. In case you haven't noticed? Times are changing. Learn to adapt.





Also, FYI? You're not living in a democracy. This is a republic. This is also a plutocracy. If you don't know what that is, I suggest you look it up.





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Thought you might like these tidbits:


';A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.'; -- Thomas Jefferson





';We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.'; -- Thomas Jefferson





';All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.'; -- Thomas Jefferson





';An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.'; --Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 1807.





';It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.'; -- Thomas Jefferson





';In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.'; -- Thomas Jefferson





Funnily enough? On numerous websites on Jefferson and his quotes? I didn't find your supposed quote above anywhere. A link to your quotes would be welcome.Is not allowing gay marriage an act of bigotry or oppression?
It sort of is, it's limiting legal marriage to only two people of the opposite gender. It's oppressing when there are some many gay couples who want they same rights as opposite sex couples get. There aren't any logical reasons to prohibit two people of the same gender from marrying.
bigotry


because it is demeaning a characteristic in which one cannot change


being gay is not a choice
The first option.
';We the people...means everyone';
I am confused as to why you are so concerned about gay marriage.





Unless if you are gay, then you shouldn't even be worried about this. But, maybe you just have some repressed homosexual tendencies yourself and you just can't get over a little internalized homophobia.





Give into the ';devil'; man; living in sin is awesome.





In answer to your question, the majority is discriminating against a verifiable minority. Denying rights to someone based on their being a homosexual does not promote the advancement of society. On the contrary, it promotes the biggest perversion in this country: Christianity - the real shame of them all.