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Thread #115854   Message #2621339
Posted By: Amos
29-Apr-09 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
Subject: RE: BS: Californians Oppose 'Prop 8' Gay Marriage Ban
It is not a cry for freedom, Dingy One; it is a protest against inquality in civil status and protections.

The issue is that a civil status called married should be recognized by the state as a legal condition between two willing persons of age. Popular opinions about evolutionary vectors as "natural" or "not natural" or whatever the current idiocy is should have no bearing.

Two willing persons of age should not be treated as "subhuman" or some other exclusionary category because they do not match your--or anyone else's--preconceptions about how they "should" be.

You are more than welcome to live up to your own prejudices, but not to shove them down the throats of others who see things differently, when it comes to legal, civil, status. If you want to form an exclusionary group, become a Baptist or a Zoroastrian or something.

I don't know how many times this point has to be made, but somehow the dodgers keep pushing it off the table, when it is actually thew core issue of the thread.


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