Re: Why you can't support LGBT rights and be a Constitutional "libertarian"
No I believe it's objectively so, not personally. Meaning even if you disagree with me, I don't acknowledge your views, I simply dub them incorrect as if you'd told me the earth is flat.
Riiiiiiiight
Thing is, you can provide empirical evidence that the Earth is a sphere. It's significantly more difficult to provide empirical evidence that the 14th Amendment cannot possibly be interpreted any way other than how you interpret it.
For one, same-sex unions do not naturally result in children, therefore unlike straight unions they offer no benefit to the state or economy via the production of new citizens, therefore I see no reason for the state to incentivize the unions as it does with straight unions.
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Nothing in the Constitution provides any sort of rationale for the promotion of marriage. Nor do we refuse to allow two people to marry if they are incapable of bearing children, or uninterested in having children.
Equally important is that the citizens do not exist for the benefit of the state; the state exists for the benefit of the citizens.
I also have to say, it's hilarious that you simultaneously blast Mill and say that strict Constitutionalists should reject his views, while relying on utilitarian concepts and imputing utilitarian reasoning to the Founders.
I'm more sympathetic to slavery than I am "LGBT rights", as slavery while bad still has more economic value from a purely utilitarian staindpoint, while the latter is sheer perversity and nothing more than social bacteria festering in a petri dish. And disease has always killed far more than violence, moral disease included.
That's extremely messed up.
I don't think any sane person today would claim that the suffering caused by slavery -- let alone the subsequent social damage, lasting well over 150 years after the official end of slavery -- is justified by the labor produced by that system. They very idea is absurd.
Further, accepting homosexuality maximizes happiness without imposing any suffering on others. Straight people are not in any way, shape or form harmed by accepting LBGT rights. In fact, your prejudice does far more harm than acceptance, and produces no benefits to anyone.
And as mentioned, modern corporate sponsored slavery is far worse and on a much more massive scale than slavery circa the 1700s, and as many more Americans participate in said economy than owned slaves, there are also many more who enable it.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. Even if you include those who are stuck providing cheap labor in the Prison Industrial Complex, it's not even remotely comparable. Your statements indicate that you don't understand slavery -- perhaps willfully so. It's not endearing.
