"Unalienable Rights"

Prop 8 by ~cheechwood on deviantART

  We must be allowed to live in a society where ALL in this country, no matter race, religion, gender, rich, poor, gay or straight... have the RIGHTS as human beings to choose a lifestyle we desire as long as it brings no harm to another human being. There are those who demand we live by the Old Testament of the Bible or we as a nation are doomed to Hell. That means the rights of some Americans are taken away and they will be treated not as equals, but as an abomination to their God. This Prop 8 turnover shows the citizens who live by Gods word can not dictate to gays how they should live their lives. Rightwingers have always tried to force their beliefs on the country as a whole. Why do they care if two people of the same sex want to marry legally? It will do absolutely NOTHING to the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. The two sides will never agree, so I'm not here to argue. I'm just glad to see this ruling and will gladly follow it all the way to the Supreme Court.

I'll just add this....

 "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence, and considered by some as part of one of the most well crafted, influential sentences in the history of the English language[1]. These three aspects are listed among the "unalienable rights" or sovereign rights of man. It is a paraphrasing of an earlier statement by English philosopher John Locke.

The seventeenth-century English philosopher Richard Cumberland wrote that promoting the well-being of our fellow humans is essential to the "pursuit of our own happiness."[2] John Locke wrote in his 1693 Essay Concerning Human Understanding that "the highest perfection of intellectual nature lies in a careful and constant pursuit of true and solid happiness." [3] Also in 1693, Locke's philosophical opponent Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz associated "natural right" with happiness in the introduction to his Codex Iuris Gentium.[4] William Wollaston's 1722 book The Religion of Nature Delineated describes the "truest definition" of "natural religion" as being "The pursuit of happiness by the practice of reason and truth."[5] The 1763 English translation of Jean Jacques Burlamaqui's Principles of Natural and Politic Law extolled the "noble pursuit" of "true and solid happiness" in the opening chapter discussing natural rights.[6]

The United States Declaration of Independence, which was primarily drafted by Jefferson, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The text of the second section of the Declaration of Independence reads:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.


The rightwingers like to talk about Founding Fathers and the Constitution, but they are the ones who try to reword it to suit themselves and their religion. To them it starts with God and religion and if you don't believe what they believe then you are not worthy in their eyes. If the right truly believes homosexuality is a sin then they also must have read the passage where God says do not judge. It is NONE of their business how any person in this country chooses to live and with whom. So why waste time with these human rights issues. The "don't tread on me" flag you so proudly carry and display shows your true hypocrisy!!