Since they've taken unto themselves almost every other right available to human beings, especially those that are essential to our democratic society and way of life, it's time to come out of the boardroom and openly address the proposition:

Why deprive Corporations of their constitutional right to marry?

Under the privacy, due process and equal protection guarantees of the United States Constitution, corporations deserve the right to marry.

We all know the feeble arguments against this proposition and the parade of horribles inevitably trotted out by anti-corporate fundamentalists to scare us away from honest, rational consideration of the facts.

Top Ten Reasons to Ban Corporate Marriage It would destroy the definition of marriage approved by the vast majority of United States voters and radically alter what human history has understood marriage to be. It would be an outrageous decision of activist Supreme Court judges who ignore the will of the people.** It would lead to our children being taught in public schools that "corporations are people just like you and me" and that "corporate marriage" is the same as traditional marriage. It would undermine marriage as an essential institution of society. While death, divorce, or other circumstances may prevent the ideal, the best situation for a child is to be raised by at least two consenting corporations. State law may require teachers to instruct children as young as kindergarteners about how corporations are equal to (or often more equal than) natural persons. If corporate marriage is allowed, TEACHERS COULD BE REQUIRED to teach young children there is no difference between individual (natural) persons and "legal entities" (aka "un-natural" persons) like corporations. Can you imagine where that might lead? What's next, film strips during school assembly indoctrinating our impressionable children with the propoganda that there is nothing wrong with a few important "natural" people using their ownership and managment positions in business corporations to excercise undue economic power and political influence to make sure their interests prevail over the intersts of the vast majority of other people? (How a race of men and women (and their heirs), by dint of their corporate ownership and control, came to be so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.) While we freely acknowledge that corporations may be entitled to their rights to perpetual existence, limited civil and criminal liability and preferential tax treatment, they do not have the right to redefine marriage for everyone else. If corporate activists want to legalize corporate marriage (and give corporations full rights of American citizenship), they should put it on the ballot. Instead, they have gone behind the backs of voters and convinced activist judges on the US Supreme Court to redefine marriage for the rest of society. That is the wrong approach. This proposition obliterates a distinction for which truly natural and religious reasons can be assigned. It removes the previous distinction between natural "persons" and un-natural "persons", it erases the line between "people" and "things" and by such obliteration grants to a select, exhalted few, rights, riches and powers above all others. Allowing corporate "persons" to marry is by definition "un-natural" and an abomination against God and Nature.

We've all heard these arguments before.

We've seen through them and seen them for what they truly are, bigoted, narrow-minded attacks by people who irrationally hate corporations and feel "threatened" by how corporations have already changed our country.

It's time to stop the charade.

If not now, when?

If not when, why not?

The Citizens United v FEC ruling by the US Supreme Court will be the start of a bright new day for America and the world. It's time to turn our faces toward that new day and start marching.

*This message has been brought to you by

*Citizens United to Treating People Like Property

and Treating Property (Corporations) Like People, Inc.

Dedicated to the principle that a few chosen people (like us) should have an obscenely larger share of power and money than the rest of you boobs.

**

Very Large Majorities of Americans Believe Big

Companies, PACs, Political Lobbyists and the News

Media Have Too Much Power and Influence in D.C.

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/...

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/...

Only One-Quarter of Americans Say Banks are Honest

and Trustworthy

Just 4% say Wall Street is honest and trustworthy

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/...

Large Majorities of Public Blame Health Insurers, Drug Industry, Republicans and Business for Problems with Our Current Health Care System

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/...

Banks Seen as Needing More Regulation for Second Year

Oil companies, Pharmaceutical companies and health insurers top list of industries needing more regulation

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/...

Any parallels in this argument to free speech and democracy are entirely intentional.

The decision can be found here:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/... and

discussed here: http://www.dailykos.com/... and http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... and http://www.freespeechforpeople.org/ ,

Credits to Thomas Paine and some knee-jerk Prop 8 supporters called ProtectMarriagedotcom.