By Bill Devol
“…All men are created equal…they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” (American Declaration of Independence)
“…To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” (Ibid)
All men…not just straight, white, rich, Christian men…If you have a penis, you are in the club.
Unfortunately, however, it is clear that the founding fathers did not suggest that all women were created equal or that they should have any say as to what we men decide about how the government should be run.
That leaves people that get a penis through surgery and hormone therapy and people that were born with a penis and lost it through surgery, accident, and/or disease in some sort of rights limbo.
Our founding fathers never intended women to have any unalienable rights. Thomas Jefferson (et. al.), must have thought women’s rights should be alienable…”capable of being transferred by a legal process to another owner.”
Women got the right to vote in 1926 when men gave their consent to women’s suffrage. Women have had a say in things since men agreed to give them the right to vote; August 26 will mark the 83rd year that women have had any official role in regulating what goes on around here.
Since womens rights are alienable, we men could vote to take any rights away any damn time we want to vote them away. It would be very hard, however, since we already gave women the right to vote, but all it would take is 51 percent of the country to vote to repeal any alienable rights bestowed on women.
Of course this whole crazy idea is rendered moot by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
You see what those tricky bastards did? They switched from men to person, so, once women were given the right to vote, they couldn’t have that right taken away from them “without due process of law.”
Those tricky bastards then cut off the probability of taking away rights even more by saying States couldn’t deny “any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” That one word, “person,” screws everything up.
Let us leave this misogynist day dream behind. I do not advocate the disenfranchisement of women.
I have put myself at the mercy of women with no sense of irony to suggest that what happened to the rights of gay couples in California amounts to the same thing as taking back the rights of women to vote, own property, enter into a contract, or marry whomever they please.
Look, as long as we are denying rights based on sexual orientation, I’d like to put in a bid for banning Furries from damn near everything. Ever heard of them?
They dig anthropomorphic animals so much that they dress up in mascot suits and hang out with each other. They develop “fursonas,” and some Furries find sexual gratification while in their mascot suits the ultimate turn on.
Sex with someone of the same gender seems normal compared to sex between two people in Wiley Coyote suits.
I say we stop leather freaks from marrying and people with pierced genitals from riding public transportation.
Saran wrap and chocolate pudding fetishists really have no business teaching school at any grade level.
Come on, the only reason the Bible doesn’t say God hates people that cover themselves with primary color latex paint before they have sex is because the people that took divine dictation thought God was joking around when he said, “Write that down…No latex paint with sex!”
Look, when Adam and Steve love each other very much, they should be able to get married…Hell, Angelina Jolie was once allowed to marry Billy Bob Thornton.
As long as one is male and one is female and both are of legal age, the government has almost nothing to say about who gets married. Both people could be gay and just get married for medical insurance, but Tricia and Eve are just out of luck.
Why is that fair?
“…All men are created equal…they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Happy Independence Day!
