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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!!
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Marriage is just another example of rightwing idiocy. There is a big difference between what they say and what they do. For example,
They say small government, yet grow it by leaps and bounds.
They say fiscal responsibility, yet are responsible for the majority of the federal debt.
They say lets keep government out of our lives, yet they want government to prevent women from making decisions about their own bodies. They want government to prevent happy, loving people from marrying each other. They want government to tell people what they can and cannot do in their bedrooms.
They say they want freedom of religion, yet they want government to follow their particular religious beliefs.
As I have said before -- look at what they have done, not at what they have said.
Sue Sue!!!!!! Imm baaacckkkkk! :) I posted a blog! I read your post and you are ALWAYS on point! I completely agree with Jerry Critter... it's funny how they want government out of their lives as it relates to anything that will benefit the less fortunate, like Health Care Reform and Taxes. But they welcome the government with open arms when it comes to things that they think will effect and control others like basic human rights and freedom of choice and lifestyle. A (FREAKING) MAZING!!!!
I miss ya woman!!!!
xoxoxox
Donna Marie
welcome back Donna! I'll come by and see you tonight. You and Jerry are right of course!
Jerry you make great points. When will the righties get the hell out of our bedrooms?? Do ya ever go to the Foxnews.com website? The homepage is full of SMUT!!the right loves smut! LOL
Dang, Jerry - I was just getting ready to say the very same thing but once again you beat me to it. I guess I'll just have to say ditto. ; )
"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."
And to look at yesterdays ruling as a TRUE conservative would, you would have to say the decision was the correct one.
If all men...and women...are created equal; and the Creator endowed them with certain inalienable rights, then those rights cannot be legislated away, or voted on in a popularity contest. "All" means just that; no provision was made for all EXCEPT.
The Right wants strict interpretation of the Constitution...and it doesn't get much stricter than Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling yesterday.
Amen!
I am glad someone on the left has found John Locke.
Natural Rights may not be selectively violated, as you point out.
I assume you also disagree with Justice Kagan, who believes government can pass a law forcing us to eat our veggies...
Careful with this stuff! You'll end up a libertarian who realizes modern-day liberalism is not liberal, and that it is incoherent and incompatible with the fundamental rights of free human beings.
Sue Sue... I kind of figured that... Buzzzzzzzzzz.... SWAT!!!!! LOL
Prop 8 was a clear violation of the equal protection clause of the Foourteenth Amendment. I said so when it passed, and the court said the same thing.
It's amazing discrimination (blacks, women, gays, all of it) has gone on so long.
Seems to me ( I'm not a lawyer) the Constitution is quite clear. It's the humans with their bigotry we have to fight through.
Some say this judge is gay. So what. He is also a conservative.
He understands the Constitution cannot forbid gays getting married.
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