Taxation, Representation, Etc.

I keep trying to wrap my brain around exactly what my problem with the whole "let's make a Constitutional ammendment forbidding them homos to marry" thing. Aside from the fact that its properly "those homos" and the fact that making a Constitutional ammendment barring a group of people from expressing love seems just fundamentally wrong, I've been probing myself (so to speak) for exactly what is wrong with it. Barring freedoms isn't fundamentally wrong, of course. Most laws bar freedoms. Such as the freedom to kill, the freedom to drive at 500 mph on open highways, the freedom to forcibly remove someone from their home and declare that home yours. These are all freedoms that the law has reasonably barred. So why not this one?

It comes down to this: one of the fundamental principles of this nation, the principle that, arguably, launched the American Revolution is "No taxation without representation." Roughly speaking, that means that nobody can enact a law that affects you and only you unless someone in the government represents you. Which is why it was wrong for the English to make laws affecting the colonies, and why it's wrong for a bunch of White people to make laws restricting the rights of a bunch of Black people. If, for example, a law were enacted allowing White people to walk around wherever they want, sit where they want on buses, attend whatever schools they wanted, and eat at whatever restaurants they wanted, while Blacks had to go to specific schools, eat at specific restaurants, and sit at the backs of the bus--well everyone would say that was madness...eventually.

There are freedoms that belong to everyone and there are freedoms that belong to only a select group of people, and whenever we try to restrict the freedoms of a select group of people without restricting the freedoms of everyone else, we are not just on a slippery slope, we are already sliding away from everything that makes us the land of the free. We cannot reasonably enact laws affecting one group of people without representing the will of those people within our legislature. Gay marriage: where are the homosexuals in the House of Representatives? Who represents queer issues in the Senate? Where are there gay people in the Oval Office? In the Supreme Court? In the lives of the people trying to fuck up the lives of people not like them? We can't allow it. We can't. It's this, then the removal of the right not be fired from a job for being gay. Then the ghettos. It's a backwards step away from enlightenment and it goes against the principles of our Revolution. America isn't just founded on the Will of the People. It's founded on the Will of the People and the rights of people who stand reasonably against that will to live their lives in peace.