New sad:
Sister is writing an essay about how marriage is between a man and woman only, and somehow gay marriage in the US is against the principlesDeclaration of Independence because it somehow... Compromises the equality of all human beings? She's quoting Kim Davis as a source.
Granting rights of marriage to a group that previously did not have rights that another group had, ie broadening the range of "equality" between people of various different groups,
compromises the Declaration of Independence's concept that all people are "created equal" and have certain inalienable rights?
...How does that make any coherent logical sense. I suppose
maybe it could make sense if you took a strict constructionist view at the Declaration and argue that the writers had a set ideal in mind when writing it and anything that does not meet that ideal violates it. But using this view you can argue that women are not created equally because it does not refer specifically to women, only saying that "all
men are created equal". So there'd be worse violations than just gay marriage. There'd be the whole women's rights thing. And anything else that's modern and deviates from how life was for the writers of the Declaration. So it's kinda a flawed view.
Irregardless, your sister sounds like she doesn't really understand what she's writing about. Sounds like she's just trying to say "gay marriage is teh bads mkay" rather than debate the ideology of a foreign nation's founding documents.
That's stupid. She's stupid. I'm mildly peeved at her stupids. Ugh. Sorry for ranting.