My Mother Can Rest in Peace

Good riddance to bad, outdated laws. I say this about both laws in this post. I see marriage as an issue of voluntary association. People should be able to enter in to a private contract or relationship with whom ever they choose, for what ever purpose they choose, so long as it harms no one else, nor interferes with the rights of others. I would eventually like to see government out of marriage altogether. Government should not be in the business of defining marriage, nor rewarding or penalizing it through the tax code. On the issue of the supreme court's decision on the voting rights act. This ruling did nothing to set back voting rights. All it did was fix the outdated (and unconstitutional) requirement for certain states to gain approval from the federal government before making any changes to voting law with in that state. It did nothing to make it legal to discriminate against any group of people in voting law. The ruling itself makes that clear in the following statement with in the ruling: "Our decision in no way affects the permanent, nationwide ban on racial discrimination in voting found in §2." The law is outdated, the offenders out of office for decades and in many cases, not even alive anymore. It would be like someone's children having to seek approval to travel out of state because their grandfather was on probation.

I really don't understand this. What two consenting adults do as far as marriage or in the privacy of their bedrooms is no ones business. People need to stop forcing their life choices on other people. Government needs to get out of marriage altogether.