-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 18:25, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:04 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. Everyone has a right (at least in >> the US) to the "pursuit of happiness." > > > Not really. The phrase comes from the Declaration of Independence, not > the Constitution. There's no explicit right to "the pursuit of > happiness" in the Bill of Rights. > > Interestingly, though, the phrase was used by Justice Earl Warren in > Loving v. Virginia, which overturned anti-miscegenation laws. Warren > wrote "The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital > personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free > men." > > Given the current status of gay marriage in the U.S., we plainly do not > have an unambiguous right to the pursuit of happiness -- not when the
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