MARRIAGE should be happy but NOT GAY.

To add to the previous post on "gay marriage", [click the article from Crisis magazine]: gays do not have a "right" to marry under any natural law or otherwise. It is becoming a very common mistake to claim "rights" to this, that, and the other. What gays have a right to is the right to protest, petition and persuade, i.e., the right to seek a change in legislative law. They have no rights to something that is deemed not lawful. They do have a right to seek a change to the law. I say "common mistake" as all and sundry seem to claim a right to do what suits in our present social milieu. E.G., claiming the right to voice an opinion! In fact, no such right exists without qualification: one cannot voice an opinion if it is calumnous, slanderous, racist, sexist or a clear lie. However, all have a clear right to any view, but at times that view ought not be voiced. This is basically what the A.G. meant when he said we all have a right to be bigots [but it may well be illegal to give voice to one's bigotry].