Pursuit of Happiness
Greta Christina
makes a great point:
if conservatives want to argue that gay marriage goes against the
principles that America was founded on, remind them of that founding
principle explicitly spelled out in the declaration of independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.
If marrying the person you love isn’t pursuit of happiness, I don’t
know what is.
But don’t take my word for it. In the
Loving v. Virginia
decision, SCOTUS chief justice 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.