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Originally Posted by Danzig
i am not talking out of both sides of my mouth. the founding fathers wished to protect the rights of the minority-which in this case would be homosexuals.
as for being in favor of slavery, you might want to re-read your history. the only reason why it wasn't abolished back when the articles of confederation and the constution was being ratified is the founders who were against it were more concerned in getting the southern states to become just that, hoping later that slavery would end-which is exactly what happened.
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Are you actually claiming that the founding fathers may have been in favor of gay marriage? Do you think if a gay person in that era would have come up to one of the founding fatheres and asked them whether it would be legal for two people of the same sex to get married, that the founding fathers would have said "yes"? If the founding fathers wanted to protect the rights of gay people then why did they throw people in jail for being gay back then? The founing fathers obviously had no interest in protecting the rights of gay people. Quite to the contrary. They would arrest you for being gay back then.
I think it's absurd when people invoke the Constitution on issues where it is clear that the founding fathers had a totally different meaning than what some people claim. Let's take the death penalty for example. Some people say that the death penalty should be illegal. I have no problem with a person believing that the death penalty should be illegal based on that person's belief system. But I do have a problem with people that say the death penalty should be illegal because the Constitution says that it is not ok to use "cruel or unusual punishment". When the founding fathers talked about "cruel or unusual punishment", there is no chance that they would have considered the death penalty as "cruel or unusual". In that era, the death penalty was considered fine. People were put to death all the time. So the founding fathers obviously would not have considered the death penalty as "cruel or unusual punishment". The argument that the death penalty should be illegal on Constitutional grounds is absurd.