Why do we fight for the human rights of others, but deny them to our own citizens?

Question

I've gotten some flack for my icon, but how can I feel like a free American when I'm denied normal civil rights.

No matter how long I am with my spouse, no matter what ceremonies we may have our government won't allow us to file our taxes as a married couple.

Our wills that name our spouses can be easily contested by families that have thrown us away and never wanted anything to do with us while we are alive, but are all too happy to come and rip off our surviving spouses of jointly owned property when we die.

Just last year my own spouse waited in a hospital waiting room and was given no word at all about my condition while a 45 minute exploratory surgery turned into a six hour ordeal with me fighting for my life.

I live with taxation without representation. why wouldn't I feel like a prisoner in my own country?

Why is it OK to deny human rights to Americans and send our young people to die to give human rights to those in other countries?

members of civil unions are offered hundreds less rights than married people are allowed the moment they say I do.
Why should I accept even one less right than any other American?

And how would you feel if by making mariage between one man and one woman somehow cause YOUR marriage to be anulled? I'm neither male nor female. I never was, but I didn't always know it. does this invalitate my mariage to a man?
what if you found out you weren't nearly as male or female as you thought? then whould it matter more to you who had a right and who didn't?

Answer 1

bush doesnt care. but i feel for ya' i think its s h i t that we're getting our freedoms stripped to protect us from "terrorists". bush is the only terrorist we have to worry about. your icon rocks!

Answer 2

I'm with U,there r so many homeless and plenty of vets that been denied the help that they need to survive in the country but yet the government keep sending money to some countries that U never heard of, sad time will come to us all, the good old day is over

Answer 3

No one has removed or denied you your civil rights. You are free to marry any one of the opposite gender you please. They then have their full civil rights.

Now if your argument is that you deserve to "marry" someone of the same gender then this is not marriage. Marriage is a contract binding two individuals of opposite genders together. To change a contract makes it so the origional contract never existed.

Thus if you are trying to push for "marriage" between to men or two women then it will no longer be merriage as for that to happen marriage (as a contract) is destroyed and cannot exist.

As for all your other arguments, you are requireing a rewrite of the whole world just to suit you.

How is that fair to everyone else?

Answer 4

Then accept the compromise of civil unions and stop pushing for marriage. A Civ. Union would have covered all the instances you just sighted.

Answer 5

You're not arguing basic civil rights.
You can't compare you're plight with people who have
fought and died for theirs.
Yours is a social condition, not a civil right.

Answer 6

F-R-E-E-D-O-M

Keeping freedom requires some heavy price at times.

This is one of those times.

Please don't complain until you've tried a different country, where there are none. Americans have become the world's most spoiled babies.

Answer 7

We should protect the rights of every person but had to regulate their acts. We should respect freedom but do not tolerate abuses.

Answer 8

America is lying to your people, they fight for their interests and not for others rights, do not believe Bush's lies.

Answer 9

It's Cheney's fault.

Answer 10

because we r stooooooooopid.