Radio Talk Show Host Mark Davis Questions Existence of Marriage Equality
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:05
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The NAACP recently came out in favor of same-sex marriage. Critics of the organization, including conservative talk radio show host Mark Davis, who filled in for Rush Limbaugh, questioned the wisdom of this decision, especially as many people of color are socially conservative.
President Obama announced his decision last week. The administration’s announcement coming out in support of same-sex marriage was made several days after North Carolina passed a law defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. Davis said that many African Americans are socially conservative and the Obama administration would suffer from the decision.
Romney, in a speech before a religious institution recently defined marriage as being between one man and one and one woman. Davis criticized the president’s position and accused supporters of same sex marriage of using the term marriage equality to accuse people who oppose it of being homophobes.
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I can sort of understand why some social conservatives would be offended by the term "marriage equality". Personally as a Jew, I oppose same-sex marriage if a Jewish person is involved because it's clearly forbidden for Jews for reasons too long to explain in a tiny comment box (as are things like getting married to an eunuch), not because I have anything against two people of the same gender who want to get married (if the place that they get wed supports same-sex marriage I'm all for it). It's not always about trying to make marriage unequal. And while from my studies on religion I don't believe the ban on same-sex marriage is meant to apply to Gentiles, some seem to believe the ban applies to them for whatever reason, doesn't mean they all hate people who want to get married to the opposite sex or are against equality. Also Romney is a flip-flopper. He's said before he supports marriage equality. Also Paul is still in the race, and his position on the issue is the best I've heard
Some forms of Judaism have no such prohibition, and conservative strains of Judaism have no power or authority over liberal/reform strains of Judaism.Not all Jews share your opinion that Jewish gay people cannot marry.
Anyway, no, people who wish to legally prevent same sex couples from marrying are against equality. Such people want one form of romantic relationship to be given legal privileges and other forms of romantic relationship to be prevented from accessing those privileges. The situation described in unequal, and therefore anyone supporting it is against equality.