What do you mean, your honor?... How do I pee...

Considering whether or not same gender couples who marry should receive the same benefits and protections under federal law as opposite gender couples, the Justices of the Supreme Court of my country are deciding whether or not homosexual citizens are legitimate and equal in every way to heterosexual citizens. The defense of marriage purity in America sounds a lot like the defense of purity within the postulated Aryan race imposed by the Nazi Party in Germany immediately before the horror of World War II. To ensure purity, the Nazis moved with infamously disastrous results to impose exclusionary segregation, not only on homosexuals but on Jews, Gypsies, blacks, and the physically and mentally handicapped. The Nazis got carried away and decided in most cases that exclusionary segregation meant permanent removal, so they murdered more than five million people.  In America at this time it’s not purity of race, religion, or ethnicity that is being considered but whether or not “purity” in a conjoined social compact known as marriage can be guaranteed if both partners in the arrangement pee standing up or if both do it sitting down. 

Some of those arguing for preserving the purity of marriage insist that the Supreme Court’s decision must preserve the right of each state to determine whether  “purity” or “sanctity” of marriage for its citizens is threatened when gay people are allowed to get in on the legal benefits of wedded bliss.  When a gay couple get together and want to call their union marriage, are they somehow threatening the unions of families established by two people who assume distinctly different postures when peeing.  

Although I’m not a lawyer, I’ve reread Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and I don’t find a thing in it that suggests a reason to keep two people who  both pee standing up from entering together into the legal arrangement called marriage. 

What’s the big deal anyway?  What’s at stake here?   I really don’t understand that argument about damage done to children if both parents pee standing up.  I pee standing up and my wife does it that other way, but I don’t think our children ever gave it a minutes’ thought one way or the other.  

In case you haven’t read it lately, take a look at Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and see if you can figure out why some people (actually fewer now than a couple of years ago) keep insisting that the language in the amendment doesn’t apply to LGBT folks.  

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.