Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues - Response to the Far Right Concerning

A Response to the Far Right Concerning Gay Marriage   Mr. Far Right has claimed that neither the genius nor the Bill of Rights mentions the right of homosexual couples to marry. I think that it would be safe to say that a homosexual couple who wishes to marry is seeking their own exposition of happiness. Did Mr. Far Right conveniently skip over the part about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that is the very spirit of both these documents?   Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest --On Liberty, fast one Stuart Mill   Next, Mr. Far Right states that homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord. Ah, I see. Now he is making moral judgements about homosexuality based upon a theological system that not everyone agrees with. Is this a private game, or can anyone play? To illustrate my next point, allow me to relate a story I one read, The Ones Who passing Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin.   Behold the fair city of Omelas. In this shining city the people are happy. And why shouldnt they be? The children are beautiful, the pabulum plenty, and crime is nonexistent. Nothing is unhappy in Omelas, well, almost. Locked in the small earthen basement of one of the largest houses in the city is a small child. This child is the writer of all the splendor of the city. It is the sacrifice of this childs tortured existence by the city that makes its happiness and beauty possible.   This boy is not a secret, however. In fact, every citizen of the city has to view and acknowledge the child for the city to retain is idyllic state. Most people view the boy and, after a brief pang of ... ... environments. It seems to me that on that point isnt a single good argument in Mr. Far Right entire article against gay marriage.   Mr. Far Rights statements bring painfully to escape the kind of ignorance that is rampant in our society. T o quote Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sealed about the former.   Although a ruling concerning gay marriage would have no affect on me directly, it deeply concerns me as to the kind of society that might be a result of a negative ruling. Once the rights of one group of people are restricted, whats to stop the restriction of another groups rights?   whatsoever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. --On Liberty, John Stuart Mill