Gay marriages
Aug. 18th, 2004 01:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woodfaceI have been thinking about the nullification of the gay marriages in California. It bugs me, not just because every fiber of my being is against the current law, but because those people had to go through this because someone did something that was apparently against the law.
I'm not going to discuss the technical part of whether or not Newsom was right to do what he did. Now, the example I have to compare this with might not be on such a big scale as the marriages were but bare with me. (ETA: Well apparently the comparison doesn't work as US law differs on this point from belgian law. Am going to check twice to make sure I wasn't dreaming about this.)
When you buy a stolen bike from someone in good faith (not knowing that it was stolen) and later on someone catches you with the bike, the bike remains yours. You have bought it in good faith and no one can take it back from you, not even the initial owner, because you did nothing wrong. So why are these people being punished by having their marriage nullified? They did not go against the law but still are being punished.
I'm not going to discuss the technical part of whether or not Newsom was right to do what he did. Now, the example I have to compare this with might not be on such a big scale as the marriages were but bare with me. (ETA: Well apparently the comparison doesn't work as US law differs on this point from belgian law. Am going to check twice to make sure I wasn't dreaming about this.)
When you buy a stolen bike from someone in good faith (not knowing that it was stolen) and later on someone catches you with the bike, the bike remains yours. You have bought it in good faith and no one can take it back from you, not even the initial owner, because you did nothing wrong. So why are these people being punished by having their marriage nullified? They did not go against the law but still are being punished.
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Date: 2004-08-18 05:21 pm (UTC)