or at least to the 70% of voters who approved an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage.
Let me explain a few things about freedom in plain language that your obviously tiny brains can hopefully understand.
1. Another person’s freedom, unless it actually interferes with yours or demonstrably harms someone, does not limit what you can do, nor does it “force” on you anything you do not desire. It may involve things happening between others that you find offensive or distateful, but reality TV and Christian fundamentalism does that for a lot of us, and you don’t see us going around trying to get constitutional amendments to ban them.
2. Limitations on the freedoms of others, unless they can be shown to be preventing direct harm or interference with the freedoms of still others, harm them by disallowing them a basic good: the ability to choose their own fates and senses of fulfillment (Remember all that “pursuit of happiness” stuff in the Declaration of Independence? That’s what Jefferson meant by that.) Limiting fundamental freedoms like the ability to decide who you marry goes directly against what America stands for. America does not stand for “morality.” It is not an extension of a church. Rather, it is a state entity that attempts to maximize freedom while minimizing the real harm freedom can do to the minority.
3. Who another decides to marry is none of your damn business anyway.
By passing this amendment to their state constitution, Missouri has dealt the biggest blow to civil liberties since Jim Crow. The USA PATRIOT act at least has a sunset clause. Unless things change quickly and severely in Missouri, it looks like their legalized intolerance and hate statute is here to stay.
By passing this amendment, the people of Missouri have proven that they do not deserve what freedom they have left.
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