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chelloveck · Jul 2, 2015

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T. Riley · Jul 4, 2015

techsar · Jul 4, 2015

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Marriage has NEVER been a RIGHT.
RIGHTS cannot be legislated.

chelloveck · Jul 4, 2015

Firstly....it is a meme...and not to be read literally. It is a satirical play on the 2nd Amendment, protecting the constitutional rights of same sex couples, just as the 2nd amendment also protects the constitutional rights of opposite sex couples, by discouraging tyrannical government from removing the civil rights of either or both groups of US citizens. Supporting the 2nd Amendment is not something that just interests straight people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Pistols

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/10/01/gay-gun-activists-growing-lgbt-push-to-support-second-amendment/

techsar said: ↑

Marriage has NEVER been a RIGHT.
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Perhaps not prior to July 9, 1868....but the 14th Amendment Section 1 of the US constitution provides that:

Text of Amendment:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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My emphasis.

This provision within the US Constitution was tested, with regards to marriage, in the case of Loving V Virginia (1968):

where it struck down a Virginia law banning interracial marriage. As Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the majority:The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men ...
To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

While the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet ruled on same-sex marriage, it is unlikely that it would overturn the foundational premise that marriage is a civil right. Lower courts, even when relying on disparate state-level constitutional language, have consistently acknowledged the right to marry. Legal arguments for excepting same-sex marriage from the definition of marriage as a civil right have rested, instead, on the argument that the state has a compelling interest in restricting same-sex marriage that justifies limiting the right to marry (an argument that was also used to justify restrictions on interracial marriage), and/or that laws permitting civil unions provide a substantially equivalent standard to marriage that satisfies equal protection standards.

Emphasis mine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/gendersexuality/f/Is-Marriage-a-Civil-Right.htm
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techsar said: ↑

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You are incorrect...Rights have been legislated a number of times...for example, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution legislated the Right of US citizens to vote, regardless of their sex. The Amendment was enacted via Congress, and ratified in accordance with the US Constitution's provisions for making amendments to the Constitution. The 19th Amendment was tested in the SCOTUS via Leser v. Garnett (1922), and it was found that the 19th Amendment was constitutionally sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

http://www.salon.com/2010/08/18/19th_amendment_turns_90/

http://www.quora.com/Who-opposed-the-passage-of-the-Nineteenth-Amendment-and-why