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this is why I call myself a libertarian

  • Apr. 28th, 2008 at 2:25 PM
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From this article...


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Urging the United States Supreme Court to tackle the issue in 2000, lawyers for Christie Lee Littleton, a Texas male-to-female transsexual suing her husband’s doctors for wrongful death, noted the confused landscape: “Taking this situation to its logical conclusion, Mrs. Littleton...

-while in San Antonio, Texas, is a male and has a void marriage;
-as she travels to Houston, Texas, and enters federal property, she is female and a widow;
-upon traveling to Kentucky she is female and a widow;
-but, upon entering Ohio, she is once again male and prohibited from marriage;
-entering Connecticut, she is again female and may marry;
-if her travel takes her north to Vermont, she is male and may marry a female;
-if instead she travels south to New Jersey, she may marry a male.”


Don't you just love how the government tells us who we are and who we can marry?

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flynd wrote:
Apr. 28th, 2008 08:04 pm (UTC)
This makes me want to puke.
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[info]bradfordneal wrote:
Apr. 28th, 2008 10:01 pm (UTC)
I have always been an advocate of state's rights, but this seriously makes me reconsider my stance.
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flynd wrote:
Apr. 28th, 2008 11:45 pm (UTC)
Human rights shouldn't be decided by the state. I mean, they shouldn't be decided by the government at all - they're absolute. They should be, must be, acknowledged that way.
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[info]pizzuti wrote:
Apr. 29th, 2008 01:25 am (UTC)
The next election is important for issues like this, because the only two Supreme Court justices that were appointed by a Democratic president will retire. It will become either 100 percent Republican, or it will stay the same and might even add another liberal judge if the Democratic nominee becomes president.
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