Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:58:59 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: GI 1213: MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHT (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:46:52 -1000 From: Martin Rice Subject: GI 1213: MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHT Aloha auwinala kakou. Too bad we don't have some of those chicken theives on Kaua`i . . . The GARDEN ISLAND 3137 Kuhio Highway Lihu`e, Kaua`i, Hawai`i 96766 ginews@aloha.net October 4, 1998 Front page, below the fold FROM CHICKEN THEIF TO GAY MARRIAGE Here's an illustratioin of how the concept of marriage as a civil right has been expanded on the basis of the of the 14th Amendment, equal protection under the laws. 1942: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Oklahoma cannot sterilize a man just because he's a chicken thief and repeat offender. The high court calls marriage and procreation a basic civil right necessary to the propagatioin of the human race and is protected by the 14th Amendment. 1967: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that interracial marriages cannot be made illegal. The high court says marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man fundamental to our very existence and survival and is protected by the 14th Amendment. 1993: The Hawai`i Supreme Court says that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized marriage as a basic civil right for more than 50 years, and gays are entitled to the same protection of that right as others. ~~pau~~