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Is there an unwritten right to marriage?

Is there an unwritten right to marriage (in the US at least)?

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sawdust said:
I quit. The question was, is there an unwritten right, and I asked if it was unwritten how would we know. I see humor in these kind of things but I guess I'm alone in that.
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some people may believe in some secular and temporal, but trinity of laws.
 
sawdust said:
I quit. The question was, is there an unwritten right, and I asked if it was unwritten how would we know. I see humor in these kind of things but I guess I'm alone in that.
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Because many people like to argue that if a right isn't specifically written in the Constitution, such as part of the Amendments/BORs, then it is not a Constitutional right.

The right to marriage itself would not actually be written down specifically though as put forth here. If it were so blatant, then there would be no reason to be debating restrictions on marriage based on sex/gender at all because the right to marriage would not be in question at all.
 
clownboy said:
There never has been a "right" to marriage, and the so-called "bennies" of marriage already vary from state to state and have changed over the years. It one of those questions that boils down to what if the impossible were to happen.
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Maybe not the bennies, but to marry? No one can really in our country deny marriage wholesale. There has always been a expectation of marriage regardless of any stance by the government.
 
roguenuke said:
Because many people like to argue that if a right isn't specifically written in the Constitution, such as part of the Amendments/BORs, then it is not a Constitutional right.

The right to marriage itself would not actually be written down specifically though as put forth here. If it were so blatant, then there would be no reason to be debating restrictions on marriage based on sex/gender at all because the right to marriage would not be in question at all.
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I wasn't commenting on marriage. I was commenting on seeing nothing. I suspect you'd rather talk to someone about marriage. Lets move on.
 
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