Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, just for some - The United States of Bigotry

[TJ]

With Maine being the 31st state to make gay marriage illegal it makes you wonder if Americans truly love freedom and if they even believe in the words “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. You would think that after 233 years of existence, the people of this country would have moved on from age old hate, but nope, you got it, the people are just as ignorant today as they were 4000 years ago holding on to discrimination to oppress a minority because they are just different.

Now that Americans are showing their true colors, whose rights should we go after next? Should we start voting on who can and cannot have children? Should your fellow American trample on your private relationship because they do not approve of it? There are many things I alone can come up with to take away the liberties of another, but when do we say enough is enough and start living by the standards this country is supposed to stand for – Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

We are not the United States of America, but the United States of Bigots. How dare anyone vote to write discrimination into our constitution? Are you going to stand idle behind these unjust acts and pretend that this hate will never be directed towards you? In the past few weeks, I have heard many complain that the Muslim religion will take over this country and that America will one day be under Sharia law, but obviously you want this if you have voted against gay marriage, you alone are opening the doors for religious rule that will destroy all the freedoms in this country, you abuse every single day!

The phrase "pursuit of happiness" appeared in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), which focused on an anti-miscegenation statute. Chief Justice Warren wrote: "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."
The phrase was also used in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923), which is seen as the seminal case interpreting the "liberty" interest of the Due Process clause of the fourteenth amendment as guaranteeing, among other things, a right to the pursuit of happiness, and, consequently, a right to privacy.

[Rob Harper]

Powerful post.

"and we are not saved..."