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Originally Posted by baddog
I have since seen the news and understand your thread although having been married numerous times I don't get how "liberty and justice for all" has anything to do with marriage
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I think Justice Kennedy said it best in their decision today: "Same-sex couples who want to marry ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right,”
Being oppressed, amongst other things, means that one group of people are seen, and treated, as less than in the eyes of the law. Oppression is taking ones liberty away. Giving the right and socio economic benefit of marriage to one class of citizens, and denying it for another, is oppression, denying them their liberty. Liberty is a right guaranteed by the constitution.
Gay people still are oppressed as they can be fired from a job, or denied services from a business, based solely on their sexual orientation. On the flip side they can now make the same bad marriage choices everyone else can, and pay the same price
