Keyes: Gays dont have a right to marry, just as we don’t have a right to pick our nose & eat boogers

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Keyes: Gays don’t have a right to marry, just as we don’t have a right to pick our nose and eat boogers

As the Supreme Court debated the Prop 8 and DOMA cases, Alan Keyes, a conservative political activist and author, argued that gay rights are incompatible with both the Constitution and even the Declaration of Independence, calling marriage equality the “archetype of all crimes against humanity.”

His core argument is that the government can only recognize rights that are compatible with God’s law. Since he believes homosexuality is an affront to divine law, it cannot be approved of in the US.

Paul Fidalgo today noticed a speech Keyes delivered at a college in Michigan, where he made the case that the government can’t recognize gay rights, reproductive rights and the separation of church and state, just as we shouldn’t recognize the right of a person to pick their nose and eat their boogers.http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/04/keyes-gays-dont-have-a-right-to-marry-just-as-we-dont-have-a-right-to-pick-our-nose-and-eat-boogers/

“The premise of the existence of our country as a political entity…the premise of all rights and justices is that there is a God, he created nature and in that creation he exercised an authority that we must respect,” he said.

That statement received a loud applause by those in attendance.

Keyes said while abortion, same-sex marriage and separation of church and state are not basic human rights there are leaders who are trying to “fabricate” rights.

“People who sit on the U.S. Supreme Court take it among themselves to argue that somehow there should be separation of church and state,” he said. “Nothing in the Constitution requires separation, nor could it because we cannot separate the country from its finding premise without destroying it.”

When arguing what a fundamental right actually is, Keyes gave an offbeat example of a young child who had a habit of “picking in their nostrils and “eating what came out.”

As the child grew up they noticed others were disgusted and did not want to be near him. As an adult the individual argued if others have the right to eat what they want, the individual should be recognized as having the same right.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2013/04/alan_keyes_the_republic_is_nea.html

[Lex]

1. This? This is what their analogies have boiled down to?

OMG, that's beyond pathetic. No wonder people are moving toward the side of being in favor of gay marriage. The anti-gay marriage folks have NOTHING but this sort of thing.

[Initech]

2. Wow, words completely fail me.

So that's what anti-marriage arguments have boiled down to? Picking your nose? Really? I suggest bigots like Alan Keyes and Bryan Fischer find new jobs because when SCOTUS overturns DOMA they'll have to find new things to worry about.